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Freedom and Reconstruction: A Historical Perspective

Explore the complexities of freedom and Reconstruction in America from 1865 to 1877 through images, lithographs, paintings, and political cartoons. Discover the evolution of rights, such as the Fifteenth Amendment and women's suffrage advocacy. Delve into the challenges faced by former slaves and the changing dynamics in post-Civil War society, including sharecropping and the Presidential elections of 1868 and 1876. Witness the struggle for equality and representation amidst changing political landscapes. This educational resource from "Give Me Liberty! Norton Media Library" offers a comprehensive insight into a pivotal period in American history.

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Freedom and Reconstruction: A Historical Perspective

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  1. Give Me Liberty! Norton Media Library AN AMERICAN HISTORY THIRD EDITION - BRIEF by Eric Foner

  2. Chapter 15 Norton Media Library “What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 Eric Foner

  3. From the Plantation to the Senate

  4. Family Record, a lithograph marketed to former slaves after the Civil War

  5. Mother and Daughter Reading, Mt. Meigs

  6. Map 15.1 The Barrow Plantation

  7. Winslow Homer’s 1876 painting

  8. The Freedmen’s Bureau, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly

  9. Map 15.2 Sharecropping in the South, 1880

  10. Farmers with Cotton in the Courthouse Square

  11. Chinese laborers at work on a Louisiana plantation during Reconstruction.

  12. Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine at Monticello, Florida

  13. Thaddeus Stevens

  14. President Andrew Johnson, in an 1868

  15. A Democratic Party broadside from the election of 1866 in Pennsylvania

  16. Map 15.3 The Presidential Election of 1868

  17. The Fifteenth Amendment, an 1870 lithograph marking

  18. A Delegation of Advocates of Woman Suffrage Addressing the House

  19. Electioneering at the South, an engraving from Harper’sWeekly

  20. The First Vote, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly

  21. The Operations of the Registration Laws and Negro Suffrage in the South

  22. Black students outside a schoolhouse in a post–Civil War photograph. The teacher is seated at the far right.

  23. Murder of Louisiana, an 1873 cartoon

  24. A Prospective Scene in the City of Oaks

  25. Changes in graphic artist Thomas Nast’s depiction of blacks in Harper’s Weekly

  26. Map 15.4 Reconstruction in the South, 1867-1877

  27. Map 15.5 The Presidential Election of 1876

  28. Is This a Republican Form of Government?

  29. Give Me Liberty! Norton Media LibraryIndependent and Employee-Owned This concludes the Norton Media Library Slide Set for Chapter 15 AN AMERICAN HISTORY THIRD EDITION by Eric Foner

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