Author: National Freedmen's Relief Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Third Annual Report of the National Freedman's Relief Association
Author: National Freedmen's Relief Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South
Author: Ira BerlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521417426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.
Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia ...
Author: District of Columbia. Board of CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925
Author: Charles Harris WesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
Author: Manisha SinhaPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631498452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
"Sinha not only has taken on this vast subject, but has greatly expanded its definition, both temporally and spatially. . . . She covers these difficult issues with remarkable skill and clarity." —S. C. Gwynne, New York Times Book Review We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha’s startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote—and which Sinha calls the "last Reconstruction amendment." Within this grand frame, Sinha narrates the rise and fall of what she calls the "Second American Republic." The Reconstruction of the South, a process driven by the alliance between the formerly enslaved at the grassroots and Radical Republicans in Congress, is central to her story, but only part of it. As she demonstrates, the US Army’s conquest of Indigenous nations in the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women’s suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. The main concern of Reconstruction was the plight of the formerly enslaved, but its fall affected other groups as well: women, workers, immigrants, and Native Americans. From the election of black legislators across the South in the late 1860s to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the colonial war in the Philippines in the 1890s, Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom. A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
An Example for All the Land
Author: Kate MasurPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"An Example for all the Land, clearly argued and deeply researched, represents a significant breakthrough in the crowded field of Reconstruction scholarship. Showing how Washington, D.C. became a laboratory for political experimentation, Masur reveals imp
Illusions of Emancipation
Author: Joseph P. ReidyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded unevenly. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences. Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Robert HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting from large-scale African-American migration. It also sheds new light on the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disfranchisement.