No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.
Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.
a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Jenkins, Wilbert L.
2002
Discusses the struggles and achievements of African-Americans as they struggled to construct a strong economic base--by establishing banks and businesses and working toward ownership of land--after the abolition of slavery, and examines the racial violence and other challenges they endured while instituting their own schools and getting established in the political processes of the United States.
In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee.".
This book covers the political and social aspects of Reconstruction, including carpetbaggers and scalawags, amnesty for white Southerners, "Black Codes," attempts to restore the old order in the South, and much more.
Twelve primary and secondary sources debate issues regarding Reconstruction, such as whether the South should have been treated as conquered territory, whether the Freedmen's Bureau was harmful, and whether Reconstruction as a whole was a failure.
