Forever Free by Eric Foner
Illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown

$15.00

No event in the history of the United States is more important than the social revolution that emancipated four million enslaved Africans. More important than the country’s foundation, more important than other wars, the reverberations of the Civil War, are still being felt to this day.

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Columbia history professor Eric Foner, is a critical contribution to the understanding of the 12-year period following the Civil War known as Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on Black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. The book is filled with illustrations to help illuminate the tenor of the periods discussed, but additionally many photos and illustrations are collected in commentary pages written by Joshua Brown, executive director of American Social History Project at City University of New York. Some photographs and illustrations may be too graphic or not appropriate for children. Softcover

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