Abolitionist Legacy

James M. McPherson is Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, as well as What They Fought For, 1861-1865; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution; Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction; and The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union.

• Preface to the 1995 EditionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction3Ch. 1Unfinished Task: The Civil Rights Act of 187513Ch. 2Reconstruction Reconfirmed? The Election of 187224Ch. 3Reconstruction Unravels, 1873-187635Ch. 4Time, Education, and Bootstraps53Ch. 5The Compromise of 187781Ch. 6Crosscurrents and Confusion, 1877-188095Ch. 7The New South107Ch. 8Good-bye to the Bloody Shirt121Ch. 9The Roots of Freedmen's Education143Ch. 10Between Black and White: Puritans in Babylon161Ch. 11Paternalism and Piety184Ch. 12Detour or Mainstream? The Curriculum of Missionary Schools203Ch. 13The Segregation Issue224Ch. 14Berea College244Ch. 15The Struggle for Black Control262Ch. 16The Shattering of Hope299Ch. 17Women's Rights and Anti-Imperialism318Ch. 18History and Biology333Ch. 19Booker T. Washington and the Reaffirmation of Gradualism354Ch. 20The Rejection of Gradualism and the Founding of the NAACP368Appendix A: Abolitionists on Whom This Book is Based395Appendix B: Southern Negro Colleges and Secondary Schools Established by Northern Mission Societies409A Note on Sources417Index423

"The Abolitionist Legacy shows many of the same graces as its predecessor: wide-ranging and careful research, a strong sense of story line, an eye for good quotations, unyielding sympathy for those who devoted their lives to uplifting the freedmen."--Reviews in American History "In addition to discussing the complex blend of egalitarianism and paternalism in the thought of white proponents of black advancement, McPherson offers suggestions of the intricate mixture of racial consciousness, individual ambition, and racial romanticism that continues to fuel modern black separatism."--Political Science Quarterly "Must surely be assigned an important place in the literature of the history of ideas and of race relations in the United States."--The Times Literary Supplement [See full book description http://press.princeton.edu/titles/1500.html]