Southern Reconstruction
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0719PPN15 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great, factual, informative book. Best yet written on Reconstruction. I learned a lot from this book. I was, however, sad at the end because of the way that federal policies exploited both the blacks and whites of the region for nearly a century after the end of the war by transforming the South into America's internal colony. Well into the 20th century Southern farmers lived lives that were little different that Russian serfs. It was also enlightening to learn that Southerners have already paid a form of reparations (if not for slavery, then for losing the war) that other books of the era overlook.. A good, national look at Reconstruction and the consequences One of the problems with current views of United States history is a fixation on race almost to the exclusion of all other issues, a problem Phil Leigh tackles with this excellent book about Reconstruction, the time period following the Civil War where the conquered Southern states were forcibly integrated back into the Union."The purpose of this book is to tell the story of Southern Reconstruction by transcending the limitations of a race-centric narrative and to more fully put the account into context with that of the rest of th. Amazon Customer said Know the Truth!. Know the truth! When I was a boy, I asked my grandmother (who had been born and raised on a Virginia tobacco plantation) about Abraham Lincoln. She told me that in 1865, Lincoln was the only friend the South had. When I asked my mother - also a Virginian – about Abraham Lincoln, I was told that with friends like that, who needed enemies? An unbiased study of the historical record (particularly of Virginia’s decision to secede) will establish that, notwithstanding his lofty rhetoric, the War was Lincoln’s choice,
Leigh has given us a refreshing corrective in the history of the Cultural Revolution that swept the United States and the South in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Traywick, Jr., author of Empire of the Owls. “Mr. V. An admirable work that is both balanced and comprehensive.” —H
The Reconstruction Era—the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union—remains, as historian Eric Foner suggests, “America’s unfinished revolution.” But Reconstruction is more than a story of great racial injustice; it has left a complex legacy involving both blacks and whites, Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by the fact that many of the states with the highest rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. Wh