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_qalkaline paper
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100 1 _aEgerton, Douglas R.
245 1 4 _aThe wars of Reconstruction :
_bthe brief, violent history of America's most progressive era /
_cDouglas R. Egerton.
250 _aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury,
_c2013.
300 _a438 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": war's end, activism's beginning -- "All de land belongs to de yankees now": the Freedmen's Bureau -- "The Lord has sent us books and teachers": missionaries and community formation -- "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies": black codes and black conventions -- "Andrew Johnson is but one man": the Progressive Alliance coalesces -- "We knows that much better than you do": voting rights and political service -- "An absolute massacre": white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South -- "We shall be recognized as men": the Reconstruction Era in memory -- Epilogue: the spirit of freedom monument.
650 0 _aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1865-1877.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations
_xHistory
_y19th century.
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