num_pages: 464
description: Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before the invaders, allowing virtually all their possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in the Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
language: English
title: Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
titlecomplete: Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Galaxy Books)
genres: Historical, History, American History, 19th Century, Race, Civil War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
awards: awardedAt: -157737600000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: -157737600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History and Biography, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Charles S. Sydnor Award, awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Allan Nevins Prize
publisher: Oxford University Press