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.
| ISBN: | 9780195198829 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 1976 |
| Author: | Willie Lee Rose |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 456 pages |
| Series: | Galaxy Books |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |