He shows us that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war.
Foner makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and-even more actively-in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. OL1805105W Page_number_confidence 86.36 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200323155650 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1523 Scandate 20200316083941 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780375702747 Tts_version 3.From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War-a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today's America.ĭrawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era.
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