Hahn, Steven

In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize?winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial.

Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction.

Explores how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people and became central figures in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building.