The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era by Douglas R. Egerton

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

Douglas R. Egerton

448 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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