Rehearsal for Reconstruction

The Port Royal Experiment

• Author(s): Willie Lee Rose,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 464
• ISBN_10: 0199924104
  ISBN_13: 9780199924103
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) ,

Description:... 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 federal policy 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.