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After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9,...
If the emphasis on the role and perspective of blacks is Reconstruction's pre- dominant feature, the fate of what Foner calls the "free labor ideology" is its main theme. According to his own study of the Republican party in the 1850s, free labor was the party's basic tenet.
Research and composition. Eric Foner stated, in a telephone interview in 1988, that was quoted in William S. McFeely's New York Times review of the book, that he had unearthed previously unused primary sources for the book from state governors' papers.
Dec 15, 2015 · Likening the Freedman’s Bureau to a New Deal agency without a precedent to follow, Foner explained that reconstructing the nation meant reimagining what the federal government was capable of. As Congress put the broken country back together, lawmakers also created something new of the United States.
Their vision was of a nation of equality, where race did not become the determining factor in what rights you had, in which everybody born in the United States was a citizen of the United States. They had a alternative Constitutional vision.
Apr 2, 1989 · “The most radical development of the Reconstruction (was the) massive experiment in inter-racial democracy without precedent in (our) history,” Foner writes.
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For historian Eric Foner, the Reconstruction Era was nothing less than a second founding of the U.S. marked by the greatest expansion of constitutional rights since the document’s ratification. But this second founding has also left a complicated legacy littered with devastating reversals of justice that demand our continued attention today.
