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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

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 | #216532 in Books |  2015-10-13 |  2015-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.18 x1.19 x6.18l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| How violence and political machination strangled Reconstruction and sullied its legacy|By Robert J. Crawford|This is a popular history of Reconstruction, not an academic treatment. It is very heavy on the politics and human drama, much weaker on the institutions, economics, and society.

On the positive side, Egerton argues concisely and with many vivid examples and| ||“The history of [the] era [of Reconstruction] has rarely if ever been as well told as it is in Douglas R. Egerton's forcefully argued and crisply written The Wars of Reconstruction.” ―Wall Street Journal|“Key figures develop

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took ...

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