Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 by Heather Cox Richardson

Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

Heather Cox Richardson

330 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Re...

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