Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
Contributors: David Levering Lewis (Introduction)
Publisher: Free Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780684856575
Subjects: History - General History; History; History: World; General; History / General
First sentence: How black men, coming to America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, became a central thread in the history of the United States, at once a challenge to its democracy and always an important part of its economic history and social development.