![]() ![]() ![]() Foner, who teaches at Columbia, is author of Nothing but Freedom and editor of America's Black Past. Publication date 1988 Topics Reconstruction (U.S. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which. Reconstruction : Americas unfinished revolution, 1863-1877. This invaluable, definitive history re-creates the post-Civil War period as a pivotal drama in which ordinary people get equal billing with politicians and wheelers and dealers. In this updated edition of Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Despite its failures, Reconstruction initiated a massive experiment in interracial democracy, and as Foner demonstrates, blacks, far from being passive victims, helped set the political and economic agenda. Many Northern philanthropists vigorously opposed integration politicos rose to power by playing upon voters' prejudices patronage, racism and corruption were rampant. By 1870 the Ku Klux Klan had entrenched itself in nearly every Southern state, targeting black schools and churches. The Panic of 1873 (called ""the Great Depression'' until the 1930s) shattered hopes for a modernized and prosperous Southern economy. ![]() With the Confederacy's defeat, Reconstruction seemed like the dawn of a new era to blacks and progressive whites, but it was not to be. ![]()
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