Download A Macat Analysis of Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 AudioBook Free
In his 1988 work Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Eric Foner drives a final nail into the coffin of out-of-date interpretations of background. His fascinating consideration of the decade following a American Civil Conflict shows that dark-colored people were an integral part of the movement to get rid of ages of slavery and were often key motorists of what successes there were in the Reconstruction period. Reconstruction had the actual to make good on the promises of America's founders, bringing liberty and equality to all or any. Yet this promises was undermined by defiant Southern whites motivated to protect their own privilege. Prior interpretations of the period often blamed the failures of Reconstruction on dark-colored people. But Foner's examination figured Reconstruction was an overall failing because whites avoided African Americans from becoming identical people. Reconstruction builds on work by scholars like W. E. B. Du Bois to finally recognize the central position of blacks in shaping American democracy as we know it.
