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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780684856575
ISBN: 0684856573
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 768
Publication Date: January 01, 1998
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
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Editorial Review:
A distinguished scholar introduces the pioneering work in the study of the role of black Americans during the Reconstruction by the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. Reprint.
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Rating: - Black Reconstruction is a landmark text
This book is incredibly well-researched, strongly argued, and exceptionally well-written. DuBois is someone whom I have always greatly respected, and it was a pleasure to read another of his incredible texts.
Rating: - Hard Read - Educational
This book is written like a text book on history. It is not for the faint of hear. I guess that would make sense. This is a serious read and makes you think. I learn a lot about reconstruction from the black prospective.
Rating: - The Crucible of Civil Rights
Du Bois took a revolutionary new look at Reconstruction in the 1930's, providing a fresh view that went largely ignored until recent books by Foner and Litwack resuscitated this overlooked period in American history. Du Bois summons up his great intellectual bearing to illustrate that from being the unmitigated failure that Reconstruction has long been portrayed as, it was the crucible of civil rights legislation, a time when there was very definitely hope that America would redefine itself along ... Read More
Rating: - An Essential Work on the Reconstruction Era
Given the way race relations have unfolded since the book was written, WEB DuBois' tome is THE essential work on the most pivotal and one of the most grossly underrated periods of American history.
Since it is told from the vantage point of a Black American, it stands as one of the essential missing voices in an otherwise neatly politicized and racially sanitized periods of American history and areas of American historical scholarship.
DuBois, writing with an impressive flair, is not bashful ... Read More
Rating: - The book you need to read
DuBois goes state by ruthless state describing the atrocities committed upon black folks by white folks. In one story he tells of a black man riding a mule and a white man wants the mule so he walks up to the black man and shoots him off.
In another story he describes a husband and wife who have traveled miles on foot after the wife (who is pregnant)was beaten unmercifully by her ex-master. Her skin has been ripped to the bone by the cat-o-nine tails
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