Black Reconstruction in America

This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society.

Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.

• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
• Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party