Black Reconstruction in America 1860 1880
Publisher: Scribner
Published: December 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780684826349
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Politics and government; History; History - U.S; United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); Sociology; Reconstruction (U.S. history,; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political History; Black studies; Non-Classifiable; USA; 1863-1877; African Americans
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.