Explores how at the end of the Civil War emancipated slaves liberated themselves from the physical and conceptual chains of oppression, dominating state politics and establishing schools, churches and businesses. Also documents the campaign of terror waged by whites as the federal government began to abandon reconstruction.
- ISBN10 0816033188
- ISBN13 9780816033188
- Publish Date 30 April 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 August 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English