Summary of Eric Foner's Reconstruction

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, and declared that the remainder of the nation’s slave population, well over 3 million men, women, and children, were and would be free. #2 The arrival of federal soldiers spelled doom for the slave regime, as they quickly realized that the presence of occupying troops destroyed the coercive power of both the individual master and the slaveholding com