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About this audiobook
Reconstruction explores one of the most transformative and contested eras in American history: the years after the Civil War, when the United States attempted to rebuild the defeated South, define freedom after slavery, and decide whether democracy could truly include formerly enslaved people. From the Thirteenth Amendment and the end of slavery to the fierce struggles over citizenship, voting rights, federal power, and racial violence, this book examines the hopes and failures of a nation trying to remake itself.
Through chapters on Andrew Johnson, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, Black political participation, the Ku Klux Klan, sharecropping, the Compromise of 1877, and the collapse of Reconstruction, this volume analyses a period that reshaped the Constitution and the meaning of American citizenship. It reveals Reconstruction not as a failed experiment, but as a bold democratic revolution violently resisted and eventually abandoned, leaving a legacy that would echo through Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and the continuing struggle for equality in the United States.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length5 hrs 1 min
Narrated bySantiago Machain
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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