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The Trouble They Seen: The Story Of Reconstruction In The Words Of African
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The Trouble They Seen: The Story Of Reconstruction In The Words Of African Americans Paperback / softback - 1994

by Dorothy Sterling

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Paperback / softback. New. "Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this ap"
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  • Title The Trouble They Seen: The Story Of Reconstruction In The Words Of African Americans
  • Author Dorothy Sterling
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition New
  • Pages 492
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994-03-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780306805486
  • ISBN 9780306805486 / 0306805480
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.4 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans - History - 1863-1877
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93042594
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

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First line

When Charleston, South Carolina, was captured by Union forces in February 1865, the Twenty-first Regiment U.S. Colored Troops was the first to enter the city A black soldier on muleback with a banner that proclaimed LIBERTY led the regiment through the narrow streets.

From the rear cover

'The Trouble They Seen' examines in their own words the lives of ordinary ex-slaves who had few skills and fewer opportunities. People are by now familiar with names like Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, and Robert Smalls, but they know little of the men and women of more modest distinction, less still ot the anonymous millions whose lives have been recorded in letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and official documents.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 11/15/1994, Page 93

About the author

Dorothy Sterling is well known for her books on black history and culture, including Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, and Speak Out in Thunder Tones: Letters and Other Writings by Black Northerners, 1787-1865.

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