Wilbert L. Jenkins

Climbing Up to Glory

A Short History of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scholarly Resources Inc., U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 231
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780842028172
• ISBN-10: 084202817X
• Artikelnr.: 21639900

Autorenporträt

Wilbert L. Jenkins

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Abraham Lincoln: A Reluctant Friend
Chapter 4 Unwanted Participants: Service in the War
Chapter 5 "Free at Last": The Shackles Are Broken
Chapter 6 A "Working Class of People": The Struggle to Gain Economic
Independence
Chapter 7 "We Can Now Live as One": The Reunification of the Family
Chapter 8 "Get Us Some Education": The Efforts of Black to Educate
Themselves
Chapter 9 "Our Own Houses of Worship": Black Churches during Reconstruction
Chapter 10 "We Intend to Have Our Rights": Political and Social Activists
in Post-Civil War America
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Bibliographical Essay
Chapter 13 Index