Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and Activists

by StanleyTurkel (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $30.05

  Congress forced post-Civil War Reconstruction on an unrepentant South steeped in resentment and hatred, where the old guard and old attitudes still held sway, and 'black laws' swapped the physical bonds of slavery for legislative ones. This book explores the beginning and end of reconstruction.