Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
Format: Ebook
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits
Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.
Contents:
The peculiar institution -- True likenesses -- Forever free -- Re-visions of war -- The meanings of freedom -- Altered relations -- An American crisis -- The tocsin of freedom -- On the offensive -- The facts of reconstruction -- Countersigns -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- The unfinished revolution.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
ISBN:
9780307834584
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Ebook
"Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
Description based on print version record.