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Forever Free : The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Forever Free : The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction about?
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America. In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all. Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, he places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and–even more actively–in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. Foner makes clear how, by war’s end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as
Who reads Forever Free : The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eric Foner
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307834584
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (377 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14