From one of our most distinguished historians 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, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. He 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. Richly illustrated and movingly written, this is an illuminating and essential addition to our understanding of this momentous era.Foreword Seeing Race and Rights: A Note About the Visual Essays Prologue
CHAPTER TWO:Forever Free Visual Essay:Re-visions of War
CHAPTER THREE:The Meanings of Freedom Visual Essay:Altered Relations
CHAPTER FOUR:An American Crisis
CHAPTER FIVE:The Tocsin of Freedom Visual Essay:On the Offensive
CHAPTER SIX:The Facts of Reconstruction Visual Essay:Countersigns
CHAPTER SEVEN:The Abandonment of Reconstruction Visual Essay:Jim Crow
EPILOGUE:The Unfinished Revolution
Bibliography for Further Reading Bibliography for the Visual Essays Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index“A highly readable story of black Americans’ ongoing heroic struggle for freedom . . . Beautifully told.” –The Washington Post Book World“Passionate, lucid, concise without being light. . . . Foner traces the lines of race and politics that run from Reconstruction to the age of segregation to the civil rights movement to our own time.” –The New l#t
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