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We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Reconstruction invites reflection on the broad meaning of American democracy, including the ideals of freedom, equality, racial justice, and selfdetermination. In We Ask Only for EvenHanded Justice, John David Smith brings together a wealth of primary texts—editorials, letters, newspaper articles, and personal testimonies—to illuminate the experience of emancipation for the millions of African Americans enmeshed in the transition from chattel slavery to freedom from 1865 to 1877. The years following Appomattox offered the freed people numerous opportunities and challenges. Exslaves reconnected with relatives dispersed by the domestic slave trade and the vicissitudes of civil war. They sought their own farms and homesteads, education for their children, and legal protection from whites hostile to their new status. They negotiated labor contracts, established local communities, and, following the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, entered local, state, and national politics. Though aided by Freedmen’s Bureau agents and sympathetic whites, former slaves nevertheless faced daunting odds. Ku Klux Klansmen and others terrorized blacks who asserted themselves, many northerners lost interest in their plight, and federal officials gradually left them to their own resources. As a result, former Confederates regained control of the southern state governments following the 1876 presidential election. We Ask Only for EvenHanded Justice is a substantially revised and expanded edition of a book originally published under the title Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865–1877.
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E. K. Johnston (review)
In this new order, the sad little country to Canada's south has never become a cohesive nation, and piracy on the Great Lakes has drawn August, son of a timber and shipping magnate, into deals with the devil.Prenuptial genetic information, which is generally kept confidential throughout childhood, reveals that Helena carries a Y chromosome-a fact that first throws her for a loop but then offers the trio a way through their dilemma.
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