We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice : Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 /

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The years following Appomattox offered the freed people numerous opportunities and challenges. Ex-slaves reconnected with relatives dispersed by the domestic slave trade and the vicissitudes of civil war. They sought their own farms and homesteads, education for their children, and legal protection...

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Main Author: Smith, John David, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > Other.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > General.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > United States > History > General.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1863-1877 > Sources.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > Sources > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1863-1877 > Sources > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Sources.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Sources > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Southern States > History > Sources > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Sources > Juvenile literature.
United States.
Southern States.
Sources.
Juvenile works.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The promise and reality of emancipation
  • Changing old ways
  • Reuniting families
  • The first friend: the Freedmen's Bureau
  • A second bondage: the plantation system
  • Organizing for equal rights
  • The right to vote
  • The first leaders
  • Racial terrorism
  • The promise of education and a homeland
  • Conclusion: Reconstruction and its legacy.

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