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==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
| + | * Belz, Herman. ''A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and | ||
| + | Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866.'' (1976). 199 pp. by a leading conservative historian [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=JDbLcWQTnBNJTyMMChDYzXnvK4yZXVGh7L8z13hwrhSCdyBTbbFy!830200437!-53255609?a=o&d=114382183 online edition] | ||
* Du Bois, W.E.B. "Reconstruction and its Benefits," ''American Historical Review'', 15 (July, 1910), 781—99 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28191007%2915%3A4%3C781%3ARAIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T JSTOR], by leading black historian | * Du Bois, W.E.B. "Reconstruction and its Benefits," ''American Historical Review'', 15 (July, 1910), 781—99 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28191007%2915%3A4%3C781%3ARAIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T JSTOR], by leading black historian | ||
* Foner, Eric. ''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.'' 2005. 268 pp. popular version from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective | * Foner, Eric. ''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.'' 2005. 268 pp. popular version from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective | ||
| − | * Litwack, Leon. ''Been in the Storm So Long'' (1979). Pulitzer Prize; focus on the African Americans from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective | + | * Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. ''Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900.'' (1999). 345 |
| − | + | pp. | |
| + | * Litwack, Leon. ''Been in the Storm So Long'' (1979). Pulitzer Prize; focus on the African Americans from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective | ||
| + | * Rabinowitz, Howard N. ''Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890.'' (1978). 441 pp. | ||
| + | * Ransom, Roger L. and Sutch, Richard. ''One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.'' (1977). 409 pp. statistical studies | ||
===Primary sources=== | ===Primary sources=== | ||
| + | * Berlin, Ira, ed/ ''Freedom: A Documentary History of | ||
| + | Emancipation, 1861-1867.'' (1982- ), multivolume collection | ||
* Fleming, Walter L. ''Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, and Industrial'' 2 vol (1906). Uses broad collection of primary sources; vol 1 on national politics; vol 2 on states; [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0OnNK8pM92WrjQK2ijCaciu&id=yukLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=%22Documentary+History+of+Reconstruction%22&sig=KbFxeYrtnbJAFZRBvK_rApDguQg#PPR11,M1 volume 1 493 pp online] and [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0lH-_oan672uKoftngo_tzc&id=beoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=documentary+plantation&as_brr=1#PPR7,M1 vol 2 480 pp online] | * Fleming, Walter L. ''Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, and Industrial'' 2 vol (1906). Uses broad collection of primary sources; vol 1 on national politics; vol 2 on states; [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0OnNK8pM92WrjQK2ijCaciu&id=yukLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=%22Documentary+History+of+Reconstruction%22&sig=KbFxeYrtnbJAFZRBvK_rApDguQg#PPR11,M1 volume 1 493 pp online] and [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0lH-_oan672uKoftngo_tzc&id=beoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=documentary+plantation&as_brr=1#PPR7,M1 vol 2 480 pp online] | ||
Revision as of 05:16, April 4, 2009
Freedmen were freed slaves, especially during Reconstruction of the U.S. after 1863. The term includes both men and women.
The most famous Freedman was Booker T. Washington.
see also
Further reading
- Belz, Herman. A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and
Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866. (1976). 199 pp. by a leading conservative historian online edition
- Du Bois, W.E.B. "Reconstruction and its Benefits," American Historical Review, 15 (July, 1910), 781—99 JSTOR, by leading black historian
- Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. 2005. 268 pp. popular version from neoabolitionist perspective
- Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900. (1999). 345
pp.
- Litwack, Leon. Been in the Storm So Long (1979). Pulitzer Prize; focus on the African Americans from neoabolitionist perspective
- Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890. (1978). 441 pp.
- Ransom, Roger L. and Sutch, Richard. One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. (1977). 409 pp. statistical studies
Primary sources
- Berlin, Ira, ed/ Freedom: A Documentary History of
Emancipation, 1861-1867. (1982- ), multivolume collection
- Fleming, Walter L. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, and Industrial 2 vol (1906). Uses broad collection of primary sources; vol 1 on national politics; vol 2 on states; volume 1 493 pp online and vol 2 480 pp online