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Freedoms Gained and Lost - Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (Hardcover)
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Freedoms Gained and Lost - Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (Hardcover)
Series: Reconstructing America
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Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and
misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in
this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on
President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a "new birth of freedom" in
the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts
including historiographical ones-to undermine those struggles. The
forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended
geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political
and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation
even today. The fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms
for America's Black population led to the apparently concrete and
permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to
the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions,
but almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the
century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy.
And it was not just the formerly enslaved who were gaining and
losing freedoms. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights
can be seen in a variety of venues. At times, gaining one freedom
might endanger another. How we remember Reconstruction and what we
do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the
politics of race, in the contemporary United States. Offering
analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history,
armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international
diplomacy post-1865 and much more, the essays collected here draw
attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction
period while reminding us that freedoms can be won, but they can
also be lost.
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