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Book

Black reconstruction in America

Call Number

  • 973.8 D816F (CEN)

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Edition

First Free Press edition.

Publication Information

New York : The Free Press, [1998]

Physical Description

xvii, 746 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

Presents the pioneering work in the study of the role of African Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential black intellectual of his time.

Notes

Originally published under title: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1935.

Contents

  • The black worker
  • The white worker
  • The planter
  • The general strike
  • The coming of the Lord
  • Looking backward
  • Looking forward
  • The transubstantiation of a poor white
  • The price of disaster
  • The black proletariat in South Carolina
  • The black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana
  • The white proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
  • The duel for labor control on border and frontier
  • Counter-revolution of property
  • Founding the public school
  • Back toward slavery
  • The propaganda of history.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.

Added Authors

David L Lewis