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Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Corporate Author: Forever Free, Inc.
Contributors: Brown, Joshua, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
Edition:1st Vintage books ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
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Table of Contents:
  • The peculiar institution
  • True likenesses
  • Forever free
  • Re-visions of war
  • The meanings of freedom
  • Altered relations
  • An American crisis
  • The tocsin of freedom
  • On the offensive
  • The facts of reconstruction
  • Countersigns
  • The abandonment of reconstruction
  • Jim Crow
  • The unfinished revolution.

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