2 options
The struggle for equality; abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction / by James M. McPherson.
LIBRA E449 .M176
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPherson, James M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abolitionists.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- United States.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 474 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1964.
- Summary:
- "Bibliographical essay": pages 433-450.
- Contents:
- The election of 1860
- Secession and the coming of war
- The emancipation issue : 1861
- Emancipation and public opinion : 1861-1862
- The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
- The Negro : innately inferior or equal?
- Freedmen's education : 1861-1865
- The creation of the Freedmen's Bureau
- Men of color, to arms!
- The quest for equal rights in the North
- The ballot and land for the freedmen : 1861-1865
- The reelection of Lincoln
- Schism in the ranks : 1864-1865
- Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction : 1865
- The Fourteenth Amendment and the election of 1866
- Military reconstruction and impeachment
- Education and confiscation : 1865-1870
- The climax of the crusade : the Fifteenth Amendment.
- Notes:
- "Bibliographical essay": pages 433-450.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1965
- Other Format:
- Online version: McPherson, James M. Struggle for equality.
- OCLC:
- 193970
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.