Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction / Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.
Foner, Eric, 1943-; Brown, Joshua, 1949-; Forever Free, Inc.
2005
E668 .F655 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction / Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.
Author Foner, Eric, 1943-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0375402594 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Knopf, 2005.
Language English
Description xxx, 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 9780375402593
Call Number E668 .F655 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.8
Summary This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all. He makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment, and shows that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war.--From publisher description.
Note "Forever Free project : Stephen B. Brier, Peter O. Almond, executive editors/producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
Added Author Brown, Joshua, 1949-
Added Corporate Author Forever Free, Inc.
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