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Providing an exciting narrative of Reconstruction based on current
scholarship, historical sources, as well as interpretive essays on
special topics, this book offers real insight into a controversial
and critical period in American history. Reconstruction: A
Reference Guide covers the entire period of Reconstruction
(1863-1877) with a special emphasis on the struggle for social and
political equality in the post-Civil War South. The book's
analytical essays, selection of primary documents, and biographies
of key participants give readers an understanding of social,
political, and economic changes that occurred during this important
period as well as provide opportunities to explore more specific
issues and debates. Synthesizing and building on the work of recent
scholars, the book documents how the central struggles of
Reconstruction revolved around the meaning of freedom for former
slaves. The essays describe how a new and sometimes deadly conflict
over equal rights and racial justice raged throughout the South in
the post-Civil War period and generated a constitutional crisis in
the nation's capital as former slaves created alliances with
sympathetic whites and sought to build a biracial democracy in the
former Confederacy. Readers will not only understand the facts and
events of the period, but will also be introduced to historical
sources and key interpretive debates. Provides readers with an
understanding of Reconstruction based on the most recent
scholarship and analytical essays that promote critical thinking
about important issues of this critical era Presents extensive
primary source material that allows readers to interpret the period
through the eyes of participants as well as dynamic visual images
from the period accompanied by explanatory captions Contains
biographical entries that provide insight into the lives of key
people from the period Includes an extensive annotated bibliography
that encourages readers to explore issues in more depth
This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in
the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of
slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation. In their
daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an
inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated
creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The
Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity
within a brutal and repressive system. This volume provides a
comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the
perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the
family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual
aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of
enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly
constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under
which they lived but that they found ways to forge lives of their
own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery
and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the
lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves
or former slaves. Provides readers with an understanding of the
daily lives of enslaved African Americans Depicts how slaves
struggled to create lives of dignity and meaning within a system
designed to dehumanize them Points out important ways in which
slaves resisted slavery Links the history of slavery to the larger
history of Antebellum America Uses primary source documents and
slave narratives to provide a supporting voice to the text
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