The wars of Reconstruction : the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era

Author

Douglas R Egerton

Call Number

• 973.8 E292 (CEN)

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Edition

First U.S. edition.

Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

Physical Description

438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents

• Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston
• "An eagle on his button": black men fight for the Union
• "To forget and forgive old scores": war's end, activism's beginning
• "All de land belongs to de Yankees now": the Freedmen's Bureau
• "The Lord has sent us books and teachers": missionaries and community formation
• "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies": black codes and black conventions
• "Andrew Johnson is but one man": the Progressive Alliance coalesces
• "We knows that much better than you do": voting rights and political service
• "An absolute massacre": white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South
• "We shall be recognized as men": the Reconstruction Era in memory
• Epilogue: the Spirit of Freedom Monument.