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Cargando... Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Galaxy Books) (1964)por Willie Lee Rose
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This award-winning study presents an engaging account of the attempt at reconstruction that occurred in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the beginning of the Civil War. Serving as a kind of dress rehearsal for Reconstruction, the Port Royal Experiment not only helped to shape federalpolicy for Reconstruction, but it also influenced the nation by adding to the initial war aim of the Union, the eventual commitment to freedom, and the still-unfulfilled commitment to equality. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book analyzes the documentary record of white northern missionaries to plantation slaves in the occupied Sea Islands near Beaufort, S.C. It finds that the former slaves on the Sea Islands were not just passive recipients of emancipation, aid, and education from paternalistic whites. Their isolation, ignorance of the wider world, and lack of resources certainly told against the Sea Islanders, and postwar policy was destined to reduce many of them to a kind of tenancy by restoring confiscated land to prewar owners. Nevertheless, Rose finds that the Sea Islanders were sound judges of their own interests who guarded their independence and “became, in their own way, as self-governing as many a small New England town.”
This book is also notable for being one of the first studies to consider how Civil War experiences transformed American slavery during its last four years. To the best of my knowledge, nothing else comparable to Rehearsal for Reconstruction was published until the mid-1980s, when state-level emancipation studies finally began to appear.