Autorentext
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).

Klappentext

This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society.

Zusammenfassung
Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works.

Inhalt

• Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign

• Introduction

• To the Reader

• I. The Black Worker

• II. The White Worker

• III. The Planter

• IV. The General Strike

• V. The Coming of the Lord

• VI. Looking Backward

• VII. Looking Forward

• VIII. The Transubstantiation of a Poor White

• IX. The Price of Disaster

• X. The Black Proletariat in South Carolina

• XI. The Black Proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana

• XII. The White Proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida

• XIII. The Duel for Labor Control on Border and Frontier

• XIV. Counter-Revolution of Propery

• XV. Founding the Public School

• XVI. Back Toward Slavery

• XVII. The Propaganda of History

• Bibliography

• Index

• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology

• Selected Bibliography