Civil War by Other Means America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy [#481160]

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1541758544 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 43.89 MB
The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered. Old white supremacist efforts returned, more ferocious than before.