The Struggle for Equality : Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McPherson, James M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1995]
Edition:2nd ed. pbk. ... / with a new preface by the author.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Noirs americains > 1863-1877.
Esclaves > Émancipation > États-Unis.
Slaves > Emancipation.
African Americans.
Abolitionists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
abolitionists.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1863-1877.
Abolitionnistes.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Election of 1860
  • Secession and the coming of war
  • Emancipation issue: 1861
  • Emancipation and public opinion: 1861-1862
  • Emancipation proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • Negro: innately inferior or equal?
  • Freedman's education: 1861-1865
  • Creation of the Freedman's Bureau
  • Men of Color, to arms!
  • Quest for equal rights in the North
  • Ballot and land for the Freedmen: 1861-1865
  • Reelection of Lincoln
  • Schism in the ranks, 1864-1865
  • Andrew Johnson and reconstruction: 1865
  • Fourteenth Amendment and the election of 1866
  • Military reconstruction and impeachment
  • Education and confiscation: 1865-1870
  • Climax of the crusade: the Fifteenth Amendment.

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