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Eric Foner

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American historian (born 1943)

Person · Open Library

Born
7 Feb 1943
Works
142

Top works

  • Slavery's Ghost
  • Freedom Road
  • Reader's Companion to American History
  • Short History of the Reconstruction
  • Voices of Freedom, Volume 1

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Type
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Gender
Male
Origin
Russia

Discography

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • The Confederate government increasingly molded its policies in the interest of the planter class.
  • The United States was not the only nation to experience emancipation in the nineteenth century. Neither plantation slavery nor abolition were unique to the United States. But Reconstruction was.
  • Alone among the societies that abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, the United States, for a moment, offered the freedmen a measure of political control over their own destinies.
  • The more fiercely the Confederacy fought for its independence, the more bitterly divided it became.
  • Slavery, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens proudly affirmed, was the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Accordingly, slavery's disintegration compelled the Confederate government to take steps to save the institution, and these policies, in turn, sundered white society.
  • In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

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