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Understanding Reconstruction

In "The Wars of Reconstruction," historian Douglas Egerton tells of the hundreds of former slaves and other African-Americans who held local political office and who risked their lives for equality, in the face of entrenched white power and murderous violence, in the years following the Civil War.