Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction / Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.

This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Corporate Author: Forever Free, Inc
Other Authors: Brown, Joshua, 1949-
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Emancipatie.
Negers.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
Physical Description:xxx, 268 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.