From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Robert Vesey's Charleston
"An eagle on his button" : Black men fight for the union
"To forget and forgive old scores" : war's end, activism's beginning
"All de land belongs to de Yankees now" : the Freedmen's Bureau
"The Lord has sent us books and teachers" : missionaries and community formation
"We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies" : Black codes and Black conventions
"Andrew Johnson is but one man" : the Progressive Alliance coalesces
"We knows that much better than you do" : voting rights and political service
"An absolute massacre" : white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South
"We shall be recognized as men" : the Reconstruction Era in memory
The spirit of freedom monument.
