Black reconstruction in America : an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 / W.E.B. Du Bois ; introduction by David Levering Lewis.

Other Titles: Black reconstruction

Author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.

ISBN: 9780195325812 (alk. paper)
0195325818 (alk. paper)

Description: xliii, 623 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois

Subject: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
African Americans History 1863-1877.
African Americans Politics and government 19th century.
African Americans Employment History 19th century.

Notes: Originally published: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1935.

Contents: The Black worker -- The White worker -- The planter -- The general strike -- The coming of the Lord -- Looking backward -- Looking forward -- The transubstantiation of a poor White -- The price of disaster -- The Black proletariat in South Carolina -- The Black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana -- The White proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida -- The duel for labor control on border and frontier -- Counter-revolution of property -- Founding the public school -- Back toward slavery -- The propaganda of history.