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Forever Free

the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Jan 21, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In this collaboration between Eric Foner and Joshua Brown, Foner provides the narrative and Brown adds pictorials and political cartoons throughout the text that are appropriate for the narrative. In addition, Brown adds six essays along about pictorials and political cartoons that are appropriate to six periods in the historical sequence from slavery thru the dismantling of the post Civil War Reconstruction. While the stories about the abolitionists and the politicians that were fighting for emancipation and the elimination of discrimination against the slaves and freedmen are uplifting, probably most of America’s whites will have difficulty in believing how bad slavery and discrimination really was and still is. Many will be in a state of denial, just as much of the German populace is in with relationship to the treatment of Jews in WWII.