According to Columbia University history professor Eric Foner, the Reconstruction era began more than a year before the end of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln, the country’s first Republican president, “announced a plan to establish governments in the South loyal to the Union.” These governments backed legislation guaranteeing Black Americans’ rights and were vehemently opposed by the counter-revolutionary “Redemption” movement that swept the South.

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Eric Foner is quoted in CNN Politics‘ “America has a long history of resisting multiracial...

In the newest issue of WMQ, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate.

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In the newest issue of William & Mary Quarterly, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate: “’So Far to...
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