A Short History of Reconstruction (1990)

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Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 0060964316

Condition: Good

The edges of the cover are scuffed, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

This account of Reconstruction begins not in 1865, but with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. I do this to emphasize the Proclamation's importance in uniting two major themes of this study—grass-roots black activity and the newly empowered national state—and to indicate that Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of slavery. - from the preface