For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms.
Assessing the era nationally, Summers em.
In The Ordeal of the Reunion , Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction\'s need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy.
For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms