Freedoms gained and lost : Reconstruction and its meanings 150 years later / Adam H. Domby, and Simon Lewis, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domby, Adam H., 1983- editor.

Lewis, Simon, 1960- editor.

Series:

Reconstructing America.

Fordham scholarship online.

Reconstructing America

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a 'new birth of freedom' in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones-to undermine those struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation even today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Whom Is Reconstruction For?

Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama

Reconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans

1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt

“They Mustered a Whole Company of Kuklux as Militia” State Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky’s Readjustment

A Woman of “Weak Mind” Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era

Idealism versus Material Realities Economic Woes for Northern African American Soldiers and Th eir Families

“Works Meet for Repentance” Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels

Toward an International History of Reconstruction

Th e Dream of a Rural Democracy: US Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1890

Lessons from “Redemption” Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy

Remembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift Joseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat

Fact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller’s Feast in 1865 and 2015

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

"The essays gathered in this volume derive from a conference convened in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 2018 by the program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW)."--Title page verso.

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-9818-3

1-5315-0055-2

0-8232-9817-5

OCLC:

1312726041