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Why Reconstruction Matters

Why Reconstruction Matters

Downs, Gregory P.
Masur, Kate

Hardcover

Series: Why X Matters

Black American History19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $26.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 30, 2027

ISBN10: 0300276567
ISBN13: 9780300276565
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Mar 30 2027
Pages: 320
Language: English

A sweeping, ground-level reinterpretation arguing that Reconstruction both created the country we live in and sparked the battles that threaten to engulf it today.

Far from a brief epilogue to slavery's end, Reconstruction was an era of epochal change. Emancipation transformed everyday life for nearly four million formerly enslaved Black southerners who became architects of freedom: creating independent institutions, organizing mass political movements, and, with white allies, driving the passage and implementation of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments that established birthright citizenship, equal protection, and voting rights. This is the constitutional framework that structures American democracy today.

Taking readers on a site-seeing journey across the South's commemorative landscape, Downs and Masur ground the narrative in nine distinct places that show Americans' struggles to deliver on the most egalitarian promises of the Founding era, including

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