Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic. |
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Contents
THE WHITE WORKER | 17 |
HI THE PLANTER | 19 |
THE GENERAL STRIKE | 40 |
THE COMING OF THE LORD | 83 |
LOOKING BACKWARD | 128 |
LOOKING FORWARD | 182 |
THE TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF A POOR WHITE | 237 |
THE PRICE OF DISASTER | 325 |
THE WHITE PROLETARIAT IN ALABAMA GEORGIA AND FLORIDA | 487 |
THE DUEL FOR LABOR CONTROL ON BORDER AND FRONTIER | 526 |
COUNTERREVOLUTION OF PROPERTY | 580 |
FOUNDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL | 637 |
BACK TOWARD SLAVERY | 670 |
THE PROPAGANDA OF HISTORY | 711 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 731 |
| 739 | |
THE BLACK PROLETARIAT IN SOUTH CAROLINA | 381 |
THE BLACK PROLETARIAT IN MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA | 431 |
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| Title | Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Volume 20 of Studies in American Negro life |
| Author | W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Contributor | David Levering Lewis |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0684856573, 9780684856575 |
| Length | 746 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / General History / Social History History / United States / 19th Century Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies |
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