A Tour of Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tour of Reconstruction write by Anna Dickinson. This book was released on 2011-11-18. A Tour of Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism, politics, and public affairs, and establishing herself as one of the nation's first celebrities. In March 1875, Dickinson departed from Washington, D.C., for an extended tour of the South, curious to see how far the region had progressed in the decade after Appomattox. In A Tour of Reconstruction, editor J. Matthew Gallman compiles Dickinson's commentary and observations to provide an honest depiction of the postwar South from the perspective of an outspoken radical abolitionist. She documents the continuing effects of the Civil War on the places she visited, and true to her inquisitive spirit, questions the societal developments she witnessed, seeking out black and white southerners to discuss issues of the day. Like many northern observers, she focuses on documenting race relations and the state of the southern economy, but she also details the public's reactions to her appearances, providing some of her most telling commentary. A Tour of Reconstruction, punctuated with a wealth of historical observations and entertaining anecdotes, is the story of one woman's experiences in the postbellum South.
A Tour of Reconstruction
A Tour of Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tour of Reconstruction write by Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. This book was released on 2011. A Tour of Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A Tour of Reconstruction', punctuated with a wealth of historical observations and entertaining anecdotes, is the story of one woman's experiences in the postbellum South.
Rehearsal for Reconstruction
Rehearsal for Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rehearsal for Reconstruction write by Willie Lee Rose. This book was released on 1998-08-01. Rehearsal for Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy write by Facing History and Ourselves. This book was released on 2017-11-22. The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. provides history teachers with dozens of primary and secondary source documents, close reading exercises, lesson plans, and activity suggestions that will push students both to build a complex understanding of the dilemmas and conflicts Americans faced during Reconstruction.
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Wars of Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wars of Reconstruction write by Douglas R. Egerton. This book was released on 2014-01-21. The Wars of Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state's Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The brief years of Reconstruction marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the civil rights movement. Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Douglas Egerton brings a much bigger, even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their movement was met by ruthless violence-not just riotous mobs, but also targeted assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force. The Wars of Reconstruction is a major and provocative contribution to American history.
