Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
by
Stephen Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...