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Additional authors

1. Brown, Joshua, 1949-
2. Forever Free, Inc.

Description

1. xxx, 268 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

1. Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.
2. From a distinguished historian comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Foner compellingly refutes long-standing misconceptions of Reconstruction, and shows how the failures of the time sowed the seeds of the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s.

Alternative title

1. Story of emancipation and Reconstruction
2. Emancipation and Reconstruction

Subject

1. American Civil War (1861-1865)
2. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
3. 1800-1900
4. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
5. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States
6. African Americans
7. Politics and government
8. Race relations
9. Enslaved persons > Emancipation
10. United States > History > African Americans. > Civil War, 1861-1865
11. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
12. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900
13. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFD 18-2448

Note

1. "Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
2. Originally published: Knopf, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

Author

1. Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2006.

Edition

1. 1st Vintage books editor.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1900

Added author

1. Brown, Joshua, 1949- editor.
2. Forever Free, Inc.

LCCN

1. 2005040706

ISBN

1. 9780375702747 (pbk.)
2. 0375702741 (pbk.)
3. 9781448709410
4. 1448709415

Research call number

1. JFD 18-2448