The meaning of freedom for African American men / Rebecca J. Fraser -- White women in Reconstruction / Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz -- African Americans in southern cities / James M. Campbell -- Northerners in the Reconstruction South / Nichola Clayton -- American Indian issues during Reconstruction / Gabriella Treglia -- Former slaveholders and the planter class / David Deverick -- Black women, work, and freedom / Kate Dossett -- Former Confederate and Union soldiers in Reconstruction / Susan-Mary Grant.
Summary
Examines the course and consequences of Reconstruction on the former Confederate states by focusing on the everyday people who lived through it.