The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
Description
Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, autobiographies, and interviews, this compelling history presents Reconstruction through the words and memories of African Americans who lived through it. Their testimonies reveal the hopes sparked by emancipation, the struggle for education, land, citizenship, and political power, and the violence and betrayal that undermined freedom after the Civil War. Carefully assembled and contextualized, the collection offers an intimate, powerful portrait of a transformative era while illuminating the resilience, determination, and unfinished quest for equality that shaped Black life in the postwar South.
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paperback
Da Capo Press
Published Jan 1, 1994
491 pages
ISBN: 9780306805486
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First Published
1976
Language
eng
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