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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction
Simon Lewis and Adam H. Domby | 1
Whom Is Reconstruction For?
Bruce E. Baker | 17
Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama
Hilary N. Green | 39
Reconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans
Samuel Watts | 57
1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt
Michael W. Fitzgerald | 78
“They Mustered a Whole Company of Kuklux as Militia”:
State Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky’s Readjustment
Shannon M. Smith | 96
A Woman of “Weak Mind”: Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era
Felicity Turner | 121
Idealism versus Material Realities: Economic Woes for Northern African American Families
Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. | 143
“Works Meet for Repentance”: Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels
Brian K. Fennessy | 159
Toward an International History of Reconstruction
Don H. Doyle | 181
The Dream of a Rural Democracy:
US Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1890
Sergio Pinto-Handler | 212
Lessons from “Redemption”: Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy
Adam H. Domby | 232
Remembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift:
Joseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat
Matthew E. Stanley | 249
Fact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller’s Feast in 1865 and 2015
Ethan J. Kytle | 276
Acknowledgments | 305
List of Contributors | 307
Index | 309
