The Geography of Hope: Black Exodus from the South After Reconstruction

By James Haskins

Book Overview

When the North won the Civil War, former slaves rejoiced at the notion of a society in which all people, regardless of color, would enjoy equality. But the reality turned out to be that freedom was just a concept without a means to attain life's basic needs--and the freedpeople remained in circumstances not much different from those of slavery.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761303235
• ISBN13: 9780761303237
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12