Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
United States history, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
This book seeks to bring the fruits of recent scholarship on Reconstruction to a broad popular audience and in doing so, reinforce the point that knowledge of that turbulent era is indispensable to thinking about American society today. The six… visual essays that appear in this book chart the ways American visual culture embraced, ignored, and distorted issues of race and equality from the 1840s to the 1920s