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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism

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On this provocative study Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of the ones of the ones most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was once central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways during which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen’s Bureau attempted to help Washington’s freed population and shows how officials struggled to deal with the social problems due to large-scale African-American migration. It also sheds new light at the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disfranchisement. After all, Washington, DC, all over Civil War and Reconstruction is a valuable case study of municipal government in an era when Americans faced the challenges of a new urban-industrial society.

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