Freedoms Gained and Lost : : Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later /

Freedoms Gained and Lost : : Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later / / ed. by Simon Lewis, Adam H. Domby.

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Bruce E.,
Domby, Adam H.,
Doyle, Don H.,
Fennessy, Brian K.,
Fitzgerald, Michael W.,
Fitzgerald, Michael,
Green, Hilary N.,
Green, Hilary,
Kytle, Ethan J.,
Kytle, Ethan,
Lewis, Simon,
Pinheiro Jr., Holly A.,
Pinheiro, Holly,
Pinto-Handler, Sergio,
Smith, Shannon M.,
Smith, Shannon,
Stanley, Matthew E.,
Turner, Felicity,
Watts, Samuel,
HerausgeberIn:
Domby, Adam H.,
Lewis, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Reconstructing America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Whom Is Reconstruction For?
  • Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama
  • Reconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans
  • 1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt
  • “They Mustered a Whole Company of Kuklux as Militia” State Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky’s Readjustment
  • A Woman of “Weak Mind” Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era
  • Idealism versus Material Realities Economic Woes for Northern African American Soldiers and Th eir Families
  • “Works Meet for Repentance” Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels
  • Toward an International History of Reconstruction
  • Th e Dream of a Rural Democracy: US Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1890
  • Lessons from “Redemption” Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy
  • Remembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift Joseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat
  • Fact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller’s Feast in 1865 and 2015
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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