Author: United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Languages : en
Pages : 1414

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Author: Christopher M. Span
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469601338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of social and economic mobility--in essence, full citizenship. Most northerners assisting freedpeople regarded such expectations as unrealistic and expected African Americans to labor under contract for those who had previously enslaved them and their families. Meanwhile, many white Mississippians objected to any educational opportunities for the former slaves. Christopher Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.

Author: Benjamin Perley Poore
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1400

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
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Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint select committee on the condition of affairs in the late Insurrectionary States
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Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Author: Carole Emberton
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807166049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to examine the competing social and historical memories of this pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and Louisiana) an “unfinished revolution” for civil rights, racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in American consciousness and its impact on the country’s fraught history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the “tragic era” that dominated white memory of the period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.