The meaning of freedom for African American men / Rebecca J. Fraser -- White women in Reconstruction / Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz -- African Americans in southern cities / James M. Campbell -- Northerners in the Reconstruction South / Nichola Clayton -- American Indian issues during Reconstruction / Gabriella Treglia -- Former slaveholders and the planter class / David Deverick -- Black women, work, and freedom / Kate Dossett -- Former Confederate and Union soldiers in Reconstruction / Susan-Mary Grant
Summary
Examines the course and consequences of Reconstruction on the former Confederate states by focusing on the everyday people who lived through it
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index