Black Reconstruction in America; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance
Print Book, English, [1966, ©1935]
Russell & Russell, New York, [1966, ©1935]
History
746 pages 22 cm
9780689700637, 0689700636
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The black worker
The white worker
The planter
The general strike
The coming of the Lord
Looking backward
Looking forward
The transubstantiation of a poor white
The price of disaster
The black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana
The white proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
The duel for labor control on border and frontier
Counter-revolution of property
Founding of the public school
Back toward slavery
The propaganda of history
Originally published under title: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1935