Black reconstruction in America

an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880.

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W. E. B. Du Bois: Black reconstruction in America (1964, World Pub. Co.)

746 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1964 by World Pub. Co..

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The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.

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Documentary through heavy quotation of the positions and arguments as the civil war concluded, the slave was freed and governed, and the Southern elite reasserted their power and control. Very clear in his indictments of capitalism, property, the plantation class, and the undermining of labor's shared interests in obtaining freedom, land, education, and representation. Long and thorough across the slave states as they differed along these themes. Long.

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Subjects

  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
  • African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
  • African Americans -- Politics and government
  • African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 19th century

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