If you’re interested in that kind of history you may like “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. DuBois. Really eye opening book for me, made me realize how whitewashed a lot of the history from then is, at least in how it’s taught today.
I may pick it up at some point. The failure of Reconstruction to deliver on the initial promise of a racially integrated society is a constant topic of interest to me, especially seeing as so many of our modern problems trace in some part back to it.
Oh yeah then absolutely do. The whole focus is about the truly revolutionary aspects of that era, that were subsequently quashed as the Union was far more pro-“unity” than they were pro-freedman, going way too soft on the south after the war and how the same ol’ power structures took hold again.
If you’re interested in that kind of history you may like “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. DuBois. Really eye opening book for me, made me realize how whitewashed a lot of the history from then is, at least in how it’s taught today.
I may pick it up at some point. The failure of Reconstruction to deliver on the initial promise of a racially integrated society is a constant topic of interest to me, especially seeing as so many of our modern problems trace in some part back to it.
Oh yeah then absolutely do. The whole focus is about the truly revolutionary aspects of that era, that were subsequently quashed as the Union was far more pro-“unity” than they were pro-freedman, going way too soft on the south after the war and how the same ol’ power structures took hold again.