It makes clear that the formerly enslaved, as they claimed first their freedom and then their citizenship, were pivotal actors in this second American revolution, as soldiers and emancipators, workers and legislators. historical scholarship.”Ī sweeping, magisterial work of rigorous analysis written with precision and powerful eloquence, Black Reconstruction restores slavery to the core of American history, emphasizing its crucial importance to the nation as a whole and exposing the underlying economic engines of the Civil War and its aftermath. His written Reconstruction record has been largely destroyed and nearly always neglected.” In setting the record straight, Du Bois produced what co-editor Eric Foner has called an “indispensable book.
Previously cast as a misguided, even villainous effort to impose an inverted and “unnatural” racial hierarchy on the defeated South, Reconstruction was for Du Bois nothing less than a milestone in the course of human history, “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen.”ĭu Bois identified the problem in the work of the dominant historians of his day: “the chief witness in Reconstruction, the emancipated slave himself, has been almost barred from court. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction offered a radical new assessment of the post–Civil War era, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and, ultimately, the unjust social order of Jim Crow.
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