Reconstruction

<p><span style=color: rgba(1 1 2 1)>Undoubtedly American history's most distorted period: the decade usually associated with the term scalawags carpetbaggers and Negro domination is here given a new and penetrating analysis. The author presents Reconstruction as the second phase of the social upheaval inaugurated by the Civil War. He shows that a democratic revolution took place in the South where for a time popular rule replaced slave masters as freedmen sought to realize the promise of full citizenship arising from the defeat of the slavocracy. </span><span style=color: rgba(2 2 3 1)>Betrayal and counter-revolution Allen holds left for a later day the democratic transformation of the South.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 1 2 1)> </span></p>