More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 (Penguin History American Life)

A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as full citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally understood as the moment African Americans became free, and Reconstructio More »