Rehearsal for Reconstruction
Subtitle: The Port Royal Experiment (Galaxy Books)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 30, 1976
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780195198829
First sentence: FALL CAME LATE TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1861.
Description: An account of the first experiment in Reconstruction, the effort of northern missionary abolitionists to assist the abandoned slaves of Sea Island, South Carolina establish schools, train troops, claim land ownership, and accept their status as freed men.