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Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 668 .F655 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foner, Eric, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 268 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
- Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375702741
- 9780375702747
- OCLC:
- 75964619
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