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Article: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
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- The Nation
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- May 28, 1988
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Experiment in Freedom
THEODORE ROSENGARTEN
RECONSTRUCTION: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1977. By Erica Foner. Harper & Row 690 pp. $29.95
Seventy years after the end of the Civil War, young Sottherns who wanted to investigate the period or Reconstruction were warned by their mentors against any "departure from the well-known facts." Some of their older colleagues could recall from childhood the turmoil of the postwar years. Others passed on the received wisdom as it had come to them. The story of the defeated South, dragge deeper into poverty and disorder by carpetbaggers, scalawags and Negroes carrying out the policies of ...