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This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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“Du Bois is now recognized as one of the greatest publicly engaged intellectuals in American history…in a class with Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and John Dewey.”
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New York Review of Books, praise for the author
