★ CONTENTS ★
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures xii
About the Author xv
Preface xvi
Acknowledgments xxiii
15 ★ “WHAT IS FREEDOM?”: RECONSTRUCTION,
1865–1877 564
The Meaning of Freedom 566 ★ Voices of Freedom From
Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson
(1865), and From A Sharecropping Contract (1866) ... 576 ★ The
Making of Radical Reconstruction 579 ★ Radical Reconstruction
in the South 590 ★ The Overthrow of Reconstruction 59416 ★ AMERICA’S GILDED AGE, 1870–1890 603
The Second Industrial Revolution 605 ★ The Transformation of
the West 613 ★ Voices of Freedom From Speech of Chief Joseph
of the Nez Percé Indians, in Washington, D.C. (1879), and From Letter
by Saum Song Bo, American Missionary (October 1885) ... 622 ★
Politics in a Gilded Age 629 ★ Freedom in the Gilded Age 634
★ Labor and the Republic 63917 ★ FREEDOM’S BOUNDARIES, AT HOME AND ABROAD,
1890–1900 649
The Populist Challenge 651 ★ The Segregated South 659 ★
Redrawing the Boundaries 669 ★ Voices of Freedom From
Booker T. Washington, Address at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition (1895),
and From W. E. B. Du Bois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
(1903) ... 674 ★ Becoming a World Power 677viii ★