"First Perennial Classics edition published 2002; reissued 2014"--Title page verso.
Examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under.
Provides the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during... Læs mere