Description:Undoubtedly American history's most distorted period - the decade usually associated with the term "scalawags," "carpet-baggers," and "Negro domination" - is here given a new and penetrating analysis. The author presents Reconstruction as the second phase of the social upheaval inaugurated by the Civil War. He shows that a democratic revolution took place in the South where for a time popular rule replaced slavemasters, as freedmen sought to realize the promise of full citizenship arising from the defeat of the slavocracy.Betrayal and counter-revolution, Allen holds, left for a later day the democratic transformation of the South.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876. To get started finding Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
International Publishers
Release
1970
ISBN
Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876
Description: Undoubtedly American history's most distorted period - the decade usually associated with the term "scalawags," "carpet-baggers," and "Negro domination" - is here given a new and penetrating analysis. The author presents Reconstruction as the second phase of the social upheaval inaugurated by the Civil War. He shows that a democratic revolution took place in the South where for a time popular rule replaced slavemasters, as freedmen sought to realize the promise of full citizenship arising from the defeat of the slavocracy.Betrayal and counter-revolution, Allen holds, left for a later day the democratic transformation of the South.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876. To get started finding Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.