Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners.
Delany, and Robert Smalls, but They know little of the men and women of more modest distinction, less st.
People are by now familiar with names like Frederick Douglass, Martin R.
The Trouble They Seen departs from this approach to examine in their own words the lives of ordinary ex-slaves who had few skills and fewer opportunities.
Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners