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Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a 'nation' under construction.

Hardcover:

9780674011694 | Belknap Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a 'nation' under construction.

Paperback:

9780674017658 | Belknap Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a 'nation' under construction.

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9781522642596 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 19, 2016), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida, and George Henry White of North Carolina...read more

Hardcover:

9780813938745 | Univ of Virginia Pr, July 15, 2016, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida, and George Henry White of North Carolina.

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Product Description: After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials), and a small contingent of "carpetbaggers," or outside whites, sent delegates to ten constitutional conventions...read more

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9780807133248 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union.

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Argues that anti-Confederate Southerners, Southern blacks, and border-state whites, influenced military outcomes by contributing thousands of troops to the Union cause as the border-states industrial economies developed.

Paperback:

9780195156294 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 14, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Argues that anti-Confederate Southerners, Southern blacks, and border-state whites, influenced military outcomes by contributing thousands of troops to the Union cause as the border-states industrial economies developed.

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Product Description: Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War. Angry and resentful of the lingering vestiges of the plantation system, hundreds of thousands of freedmen joined local chapters, speaking and acting collectively to undermine the residual trappings of slavery in plantation society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780807115268, titled "Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction" | Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War.

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9780807126332 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War.

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