Forever Free The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

Name: Forever Free The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780375702747

ISBN-10: 0375702741

ISBN-13: 9780375702747

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eric Foner, Joshua Brown

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From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. He compellingly refutes long-standing misconceptions of Reconstruction, and shows how the failures of the time sowed the seeds of the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s. Richly illustrated and movingly written, this is an illuminating and essential addition to…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.11" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.



Foreword Seeing Race and Rights: A Note About the Visual Essays Prologue



The Peculiar Institution Visual Essay:True Likenesses



Forever Free Visual Essay:Re-visions of War



The Meanings of Freedom Visual Essay:Altered Relations



An American Crisis



The Tocsin of Freedom Visual Essay:On the Offensive



The Facts of Reconstruction Visual Essay:Countersigns



The Abandonment of Reconstruction Visual Essay:Jim Crow Epilogue:The Unfinished Revolution Bibliography for Further Reading Bibliography for the Visual Essays Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments


Index