The wars of Reconstruction
Subtitle: the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era
By: Douglas R. Egerton
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781608195664
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); History
Description: A history of the Reconstruction years, which marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the Civil Rights movement, tells the stories of the African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality after the Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-420) and index.
Table of contents: title: Robert Vesey's Charleston; title: "An eagle on his button" : Black men fight for the union; title: "To forget and forgive old scores" : war's end, activism's beginning; title: "All de land belongs to de Yankees now" : the Freedmen's Bureau; title: "The Lord has sent us books and teachers" : missionaries and community formation; title: "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies" : Black codes and Black conventions; title: "Andrew Johnson is but one man" : the Progressive Alliance coalesces; title: "We knows that much better than you do" : voting rights and political service; title: "An absolute massacre" : white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South; title: "We shall be recognized as men" : the Reconstruction Era in memory; title: The spirit of freedom monument.