I've Been Here All the While

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The First Settlers of Indian Territory Chapter 2. Emancipation and Intervention Chapter 3. Whose Racial Paradise? Chapter 4. The Last Wave Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments