Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has compiled an impressive amount of information about the antebellum status, occupations, property ownership, and military service of these officials — who range from U.S. congressmen to local justices of the peace and constables. This revised paperback edition also contains new material on forty-fi...