Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction : race and radicalism / Robert Harrison

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Notes: ANAC copy 39088020232922 gift of Alcione Amos.
Contents: Foreword / by Phillipp Schofield -- Introduction -- Wartime Washington -- The Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia -- Congressional reconstruction in the District of Columbia -- Reconstructing the city government -- Race, radicalism, and reconstruction : grassroots Republican politics -- A city and a state : governing the District of Columbia -- From biracial democracy to direct rule : the end of self-government in the nation's capital -- Reconstruction in the nations's capital
Summary: "Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans"-- Provided by publisher.; "In this book, Robert Harrison tells the dramatic story of Washington, DC, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction in the nation's capital and of the lives of those of the most deeply affected, the newly emacipated African Americans. Harrison describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's free population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting from large-scale black migration. The study sheds new light on the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disenfranchisement"-- Provided by publisher.

Topic: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Freed persons--History; Politics and government; Race relations; History