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The failed promise Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressiv...

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Main Author: Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Johnson, Andrew, > 1808-1875 > Impeachment.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Lincoln's Second Inauguration
  • Southern Unionist
  • The Mission of the War
  • "Abraham Lincoln Dies, the Republic Lives"
  • "There Is No Such Thing as Reconstruction"
  • A Moses in the White House
  • The Black Delegation Visits a Moses of Their People
  • The President's Riots
  • Shadowing Johnson, Defying the Loyalists
  • Sources of Danger to the Republic
  • A Job Offer
  • The Trials of Impeachment
  • "Demented Moses of Tennessee"
  • Epilogue: "We Have a Fight on Our Hands".

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