Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in
the South and the restructuring of society by which the former
slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land
they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government
they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner
examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the
experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by
the establishment of an undemocratic government and the imposition
of a system of forced labor; the British Caribbean, where the
colonial government oversaw an orderly transition from slavery to
the creation of an almost totally dependent work force; and early
twentieth-century southern and eastern Africa, where a
self-sufficient peasantry was dispossessed in order to create a
dependent black work force. Measuring the progress of freedmen in
the post--Civil War South against that of freedmen in other
recently emancipated societies, Foner reveals Reconstruction to
have been, despite its failings, a unique and dramatic experiment
in interracial democracy in the aftermath of slavery. Steven Hahn's
timely new foreword places Foner's analysis in the context of
recent scholarship and assesses its enduring impact in the
twenty-first century.
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