Description: Original edition published under title: Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1996.
Review Quotes:
"Rich in summary insight, even as it presents the quoted thoughts, desires, and hopes of black Americans. Smith has sifted thousands of letters, articles, speeches, and memoirs and has selected materials that illustrate the experience of emancipation."--CHOICE
"An engaging, serious, readable, well-organized compilation and narrative that accomplishes a great deal in a few pages."--Georgia Historical Quarterly "A valuable and compelling volume. I am impressed by the range of documents gathered by the author and his familiarity with details of the era's history."--Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877