Freedom's lawmakers
Subtitle: a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction
By: Eric Foner.
Contributors: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Biography; Dictionaries.
Description: "The nearly 1500 officials listed here from congressmen to justices of the peace to constables offer a panorama of the black community in all its diversity freeborn and slave, Northern and Southern, rich and poor"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Published in cooperation with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York."