Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy

Undoubtedly American history's most distorted period: the decade usually associated with the term "scalawags," "carpetbaggers," and "Negro domination", is here given a new and penetrating analysis. The author presents Reconstruction as the second phase of the social upheaval inaugurated by the Civil War. He shows that a democratic revolution took place in the South where for a time popular rule replaced slave masters, as freedmen sought to realize the promise of full citizenship arising from the defeat of the slavocracy. Betrayal and counter-revolution, Allen holds, left for a later day the democratic transformation of the South.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: International Publishers
Published: 09/01/2021
ISBN: 9780717808687
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.60d