Presents a collection of several graphic novel-type stories that trace the experiences of freed slaves following Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
This book traces the history of the Civil War, the four-year struggle between the slave-free North and the slaveholding South, and explains that by the second year of the war emancipation became a major goal for the North.
Examines the political fights for Southern reconstruction after the Civil War, the various reconstruction plans, how Lincoln's death effected the outcome of reconstruction, and the various issues associated with African-American emancipation.
Presents an analysis of the Reconstruction era, looking at how Americans on both sides of the Civil War dealt with the changes caused by the conflict and the end of slavery in the years between 1863 and 1877.
