Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA are for the first time governed by an African American president. The postscriptum extends the main narrative by focusing on selected writers’ activities and fiction during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Table of ContentsContents: The Seeds of War: From the Missouri Compromise to Secession – Fighting Slavery: Various Shades of Abolitionism – Lincoln and the Civil War – Black Learning, Land, and Labor in the Reconstruction South – The Invisible Empire: The Short Career of the First Ku Klux Klan and Its Rebirth – Years of Shame: Lynching in the United States from 1880s to the Great War – «Wounded in the House of Our Friends»: Segregation in the Republic –
The Civil War and the Writer –
The Literature of Reconstruction.
