We ask only for even-handed justice : Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 /
The years following Appomattox offered the freed people numerous opportunities and challenges. Ex-slaves reconnected with relatives dispersed by the domestic slave trade and the vicissitudes of civil war. They sought their own farms and homesteads, education for their children, and legal protection...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | Revised and expanded edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
