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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
W E B Du Bois |
ISBN: | 0689700636 9780689700637 |
OCLC Number: | 1039311 |
Notes: | Originally published under title: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1935. |
Description: | 746 pages 22 cm |
Contents: | The black worker -- The white worker -- The planter -- The general strike -- The coming of the Lord -- Looking backward -- Looking forward -- The transubstantiation of a poor white -- The price of disaster -- The black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana -- The white proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida -- The duel for labor control on border and frontier -- Counter-revolution of property -- Founding of the public school -- Back toward slavery -- The propaganda of history. |
Series Title: | Studies in American Negro life. |
Other Titles: | Black reconstruction |
Abstract:
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.
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