A review by alexsiddall
Freedom Road by Eric Foner, Howard Fast, W.E.B. Du Bois

5.0

Read this book for the 2nd time. Perhaps not a great book in its writing, but well-written in a simple easy style. It deals with a shameful, terrible and dark episode in US history of which I was completely unaware. How different the USA, and thus the world, may have been; how different the US foreign policy, and attitude to the rest of the world, might have been, had Reconstruction not been systematically smashed.
This book affected me deeply, both times I read it.