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Washington During Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism - Harrison, Robert
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In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the ...

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107002326

Hardcover