BLACK VOICES FROM RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1877
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by John David Smith
The hopes and dreams and terrible disappointments of black people during the period after slavery is told here by a professor of history, who quotes extensively from original letters, articles, and testimonies of ordinary men and women. His commentary is sometimes dry and difficult, but the voices of the former slaves bear eloquent witness to the promise and reality of emancipation: the search for family members sold away from one another, the drive for education and land, the reality...
The hopes and dreams and terrible disappointments of black people during the period after slavery is told here by a professor of history, who quotes extensively from original letters, articles, and testimonies of ordinary men and women. His commentary is sometimes dry and difficult, but the voices of the former slaves bear eloquent witness to the promise and reality of emancipation: the search for family members sold away from one another, the drive for education and land, the reality...
