Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880
See how Black workers helped win emancipation, built Reconstruction institutions, and faced the struggle over labor, citizenship, and historical memory.
The whole book, about 23 hours to read.
At a glance
- Author
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Reading time
- 23 hours
Contents
- Introduction to the Transaction Edition
- To the Reader
- The Black Worker
- II
- The White Worker
- III
- The Planter
- IV
- The General Strike
- The Coming of the Lord
- VI
- Looking Backward
- VII
- Looking Forward
- VIII
- Transubstantiation of a Poor White
- IX
- The Price of Disaster
- The Black Proletariat in South Carolina
- XI
- The Black Proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana
- XII
- The White Proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
- XIII
- The Duel for Labor Control on Border and Frontier
- XIV
- Counter-Revolution of Property
- XV
- Founding the Public School
- XVI
- Back Toward Slavery
- XVII
- The Propaganda of History
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