{"product_id":"freedoms-gained-and-lost-reconstruction-and-its-meanings-150-years-later-hardback-9780823298150","title":"Freedoms Gained and Lost; Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (Hardback) 9780823298150","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFreedoms Gained and Lost\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdam H. Domby (Edited by), Simon Lewis (Edited by), Bruce E. Baker (Contributions by), Adam H. Domby (Contributions by), Don H. Doyle (Contributions by), Brian K. Fennessy (Contributions by), Michael Fitzgerald (Contributions by), Hilary N. Green (Contributions by), Ethan Kytle (Contributions by), Simon Lewis (Contributions by), Holly Pinheiro (Contributions by), Sergio Pinto-Handler (Contributions by), Shannon Smith (Contributions by), Felicity Turner (Contributions by), Samuel Watts (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823298150\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a \"new birth of freedom\" in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation even today. The fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms for America's Black population led to the apparently concrete and permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions, but almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy. And it was not just the formerly enslaved who were gaining and losing freedoms. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights can be seen in a variety of venues. At times, gaining one freedom might endanger another. How we remember Reconstruction and what we do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the politics of race, in the contemporary United States. Offering analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history, armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international diplomacy post-1865 and much more, the essays collected here draw attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction period while reminding us that freedoms can be won, but they can also be lost.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimon Lewis and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam H. Domby\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhom Is Reconstruction For?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce E. Baker\u003c\/i\u003e   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eImplementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHilary N. Green\u003c\/i\u003e   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eReconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSamuel Watts\u003c\/i\u003e   57\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael W. Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e   78\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"They Mustered a Whole Company of Kuklux as Militia\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eState Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky's Readjustment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShannon M. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e   96\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Woman of \"Weak Mind\": Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFelicity Turner \u003c\/i\u003e  121\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIdealism versus Material Realities: Economic Woes for Northern African American Families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHolly A. Pinheiro, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Works Meet for Repentance\": Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian K. Fennessy\u003c\/i\u003e   159\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eToward an International History of Reconstruction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDon H. Doyle\u003c\/i\u003e   181\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Dream of a Rural Democracy:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUS Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1890\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSergio Pinto-Handler\u003c\/i\u003e   212\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLessons from \"Redemption\": Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam H. Domby \u003c\/i\u003e  232\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRemembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew E. Stanley\u003c\/i\u003e   249\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller's Feast in 1865 and 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEthan J. Kytle\u003c\/i\u003e   276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  305\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e   307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  309\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580465606936,"sku":"9780823298150","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/freedoms-gained-and-lost-reconstruction-and-its-meanings-150-years-later-hardback-9780823298150","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}