Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings

Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors.

A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 (Author)
Other Authors: Foner, Eric, 1943- (Editor), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : The Library of America, [2021]
Series:Library of America ; 350.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans > Suffrage.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century.
African Americans > Employment > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
Essays.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Black reconstruction. The black worker ; The white worker ; The planter ; The general strike ; The coming of the Lord ; Looking backward ; Looking forward ; Transubstantiation of a poor white ; The price of disaster ; The black proletariat in South Carolina ; The black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana ; The white proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida ; The duel for labor control on border and frontier ; Counter-revolution of property ; Founding the public school ; Back toward slavery ; The propaganda of history
  • Other writings: Of the dawn of freedom (1901/1903) ; Reconstruction and its benefits (1910) ; The experts (1913) ; The reconstruction of freedom (1924).

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