Title: Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 /
Authors: Foner, Eric.
Publisher: Perennial Library ;
Year: 1989
Subjects: Reconstruction.; African Americans History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); United States Politics and government
Contents: The world the war made -- The coming of emancipation -- The inner Civil War -- The North's transformation -- Rehearsals for reconstruction -- Dilemmas of wartime reconstruction -- Land and labor during the Civil War -- The politics of emancipation and the end of the war -- The meaning of freedom -- From slavery to freedom -- Building the black community -- The economics of freedom -- Origins of black politics -- Violence and everyday life -- Ambiguities of free labor -- Masters without slaves -- The "misrepresented bureau" -- The freedman's bureau, land, and labor -- Beginnings of economic reconstruction -- The failure of presidential reconstruction -- Andrew Johnson and reconstruction -- Launching the South's new governments -- The anatomy of presidential reconstruction -- The North's response -- The making of radical reconstruction -- The radical Republicans -- Origins of civil rights -- The fourteenth amendment -- The campaign of 1866 -- The coming of black suffrage --^