A just and lasting peace : a documentary history of Reconstruction / edited and with an introduction by John David Smith.

Contributor Smith, John David, 1949- editor.

ImprintNew York, New York : Signet Classics, [2013]

Descriptionxxix, 605 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Note:Chronology of Reconstruction -- Introduction -- Part I: Wartime Reconstruction. "An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia " (April 16, 1862) ; Abraham Lincoln, "Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation" (September 22, 1862) ; Abraham Lincoln, "Emancipation Proclamation" (January 1, 1863) ; "Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction" (December 8, 1863) ; The Wade-Davis Bill (February 15, 1864) ; Lincoln's Response to the Wade-Davis Bill (July 8, 1864) ; The Wade-Davis Manifesto (August 5, 1864) ; Henry Highland Garnet, "Let the Monster Perish" (February 12, 1865) ; "An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees" (March 3, 1865) ; Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address" (March 4, 1865) -- Part II: Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-67. Charles Sumner, "Right and Duty of Colored Fellow-Citizens in the Organization of Government" (May, 13, 1865) ; Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation Establishing Government for North Carolina " (May 29, 1865) ; Andrew Johnson, "Amnesty Proclamation" (May 29, 1865) ; Emily Waters to My Dear Husband (July 16, 1865) ; Thaddeus Stevens, "Reconstruction" (September 6, 1865) ; "A Freedmen's Bureau Officer Reports on Conditions in Mississippi " (September, 1865) ; "From Edisto Island Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" (October 28, 1865) ; Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress" (December 4, 1865) ; Amendment 13 (Ratified December 6, 1865) ; "Report of Carl Schurz on the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana " (December 19, 1865) ; Laws of the State of Mississippi (1866) ; Joseph S. Fullerton to Andrew Johnson (February 9, 1866) ; John Richard Dennett, "Vicksburg, Miss., March 8, 1866" -- Part III: Radical Reconstruction. Charles Sumner to the Duchess of Argyll (April 3, 1866) ; The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (April 9, 1866) ; Benjamin C. Truman, "Relative to the condition of the southern people and the States in which the rebellion existed" (April 9, 1866) ; Carl Schurz, "The Logical Results of the War" (September 8, 1866) ; Statement of Rhoda Ann Childs (September 25, 1866) ; George Fitzhugh, " Camp Lee and the Freedman's [sic] Bureau" (October 1866) ; Frederick Douglass, "Reconstruction" (December 1866) ; "President Johnson's Message" (December 3, 1866) ; Claude August Crommelin, A Young Dutchman Views Post-Civil War America (December 1866) ; Henry Latham, Black and White: A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States (1867) ; "An Act to Provide for more efficient government of the Rebel States" (March 2, 1867) ; Editorial in Charlottesville Chronicle on Radical Reconstruction (March 6, 1867) ; "The Prospect of Reconstruction" (March 14, 1867) ; "Impeachment from a Legal Point of View" (March 14, 1867) ; "Congress and the Constitution" (March 28, 1867) ; "The Prospect at the South" (March 28, 1867) ; "Land for the Landless" (May 16, 1867) ; The Reconstruction Act: Pro and Con (June 27 and 28, 1867) ; "The Freedmen" (July 1867) ; Thaddeus Stevens, "Reconstruction" (July 9, 1867) ; "The Negro's Claim to Office" (August 1, 1867) ; "Samson Agonistes at Washington" ; George Fitzhugh, "Cui Bono? --The Negro Vote" (September 17, 1867) ; "The Virginia Election" (October 31, 1867) ; "What Shall We Do with the Indians?" (October 31, 1867) ; Andrew Johnson, "Third Annual Message" (December 3, 1867) ; J.T. Trowbridge, A Picture of the Desolated States; and the work of Restoration, 1865-1868 (1868) ; Cornelia Hancock to Philadelphia Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen (January 1868) ; Francis L. Cardozo, "Break Up the Plantation System" (January 14, 1868) ; "The Impeachment," New York Times, February 24, 1868 ; S.A. Atkinson, "The Supreme Hour has Come" (March 13, 1868) ; "Karinus," Letter to the Editor --"Equal Suffrage in Michigan " (March 17, 1868) ; "This Little Boy would Persist in Handling Books above His Capacity" ; Thaddeus Stevens, "Speech on Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson" (April 27, 1868) ; "The Result of the Trial" (May 21, 1868) ; Republican National Platform of 1868 (May 21, 1868) ; Carey Styles, "Not Our 'Brother'" (June 24, 1868) ; Amendment 14 (Ratified July 9, 1868) ; Henry McNeal Turner, "I Claim the Rights of a Man" (September 3, 1868) ; "Remarks of William E. Mathews" (January 1869) ; Ulysses S. Grant, "Inaugural Address" (March 4, 1869) ; Lydia Maria Child, "Homesteads" (March 28, 1869) ; Amendment 15 (Ratified February 3, 1870) ; Frederick Douglass, "At Last, At Last, the Black Man has a Future" (April 22, 1870) ; Carl Schurz, "Enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment" (May 19, 1870) ; "An Act to enforce the Right of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes" (May 31, 1870) ; Proceedings of the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. in the United States Circuit Court, November Term, 1871 (1872) ; Hiram R. Revels, "Abolish Separate Schools" (1871) ; Robert Brown Elliott, "The Amnesty Bill" (March 14, 1871) ; "An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes" (April 20, 1871) -- Part IV: Reconstructions End and Legacy. Charles Stearns, The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, The Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter (1872) ; Thomas Nast, "The Man with the (Carpet) Bags" ; James S. Pike, The Prostrate State (1874) ; Robert Browne Elliott, "The Civil Rights Bill" (January 6, 1874) ; John Mercer Langston, "Equality before the Law" (May 17, 1874) ; James T. Rapier, "Civil Rights" (June 9, 1874) ; "An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights" (March 1, 1875) ; "The Negro Spirit" (July 21, 1876) ; Carl Schurz, "Hayes versus Tilden" (August 31, 1876) ; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Some War Scenes Revisited" (July 1878) ; D.H. Chamberlain, "Reconstruction and the Negro" (February 1879) ; Civil Rights Cases and Justice Harlan's Dissent (1883) ; Washington Lafayette Clayton, Olden Times Revisited (1906) ; From Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery (1945) -- Sources of the texts.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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