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Foner's analysis of the white South's responses to emancipation and Reconstruction. A further theme of the book is the emergence during the Civil War and Reconstruction of the activist national state, committed to reforming Southern society in the direction of natural rights and free labor ideology (pp. xxvi, 237). In the course of implementing ...
Dec 19, 2014 · The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. Kate Masur (Northwestern University) organized and introduced the discussion, and the commentators in order of speaking were the following:
- Eric Foner
- 2015
Sep 2, 2011 · Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism.
As the essays in this forum show at length, there has been a profusion of Reconstruction schol-arship since 1988—and even some substantial challenges to Foner. But no synthetic overview has come to displace Reconstruction.2 Nearly thirty years later, this forum provides a number of helpful answers to Perman’s question.
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.
Jun 5, 2020 · 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, 2006.
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Slavery was the most fundamental cause of the Civil War and emancipation, in which blacks played a central role, its most revolutionary outcome. The land issue was crucial to the fate of Reconstruction as was the struggle over control of the labor of emancipated slaves.
