After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

“Is there really anything new to say about Reconstruction? The excellent contributions to this volume make it clear that the answer is a ...

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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning FamiliesSince Reconstruction

This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essa...

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Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep Southafter the Civil War

Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, creat...

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After War Times: An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida

T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, w...

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Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these...

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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, root...

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The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction

This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during R...

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Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files

Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension ...

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism

In this provocative study Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of t...

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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, d...

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African Americans During Reconstruction (Slavery in the Americas)

The end of the Civil War was a hopeful beginning for African Americans. Although Lincoln left no definite plan for reconstruction, many su...

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A Just and Lasting Peace: A Documentary History of Reconstruction

This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans—Northern, Sout...

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Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography by Robert Russa Moton

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The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington

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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizens...

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We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was criti...

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

slavery by another name the re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii

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Iron Confederates : Southern Railways , Klan Violence , and Reconstruction

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Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage by Oliver Perry Morton

Oliver Perry Morton--Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage (1865) by chyoung

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