After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South by
The essays included here are selected from the best work created for the After Slavery Project, a transatlantic research collaboration. Combined, they offer a diversity of viewpoints on the key issues in Reconstruction historiography and a well-rounded portrait of the era.
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by
Mapping the emancipation circuits, Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom---circulating on shipping routes, via army maneuvers, and with itinerant activists---that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work, she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by
Chronicles the way in which Americans--black and white--responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Online) by
Looks at the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African-Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a 'New Negro' to force the nation to recognise their humanity and unique contributions to the United States.
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Online) by
Presents a look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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