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Author Foner, Eric.

Title Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction / Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.

Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.8 F732f 2006    ---  Available
 Eureka Non-Fiction  973.8 Fon    ---  Available
Edition 1st Vintage Books ed.
Description xxx, 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Note "Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
Contents The peculiar institution -- True likenesses -- Forever free -- Re-visions of war -- The meanings of freedom -- Altered relations -- An American crisis -- The tocsin of freedom -- On the offensive -- The facts of reconstruction -- Countersigns -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- The unfinished revolution.
Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
Added Author Brown, Joshua, 1949-
Forever Free, Inc.
ISBN 0375702741 (pbk.) : $15.00
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