![]() ![]() There are fresh insights on a host of other issues. Among the themes that unify the narrative are: the ways in which the emancipated slaves’ quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants and small farmers within it the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. ![]() Reconstruction chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. The prize winning classic work on the post Civil War period which wrenched American society, now with a new introduction by the author. Title: Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner. ![]()
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