This "freed" all slaves in America by law but only on paper, as the Confederate States at this time were engaged in armed conflict against the federal government and did not follow its laws. Though Reconstruction wouldn't begin in earnest until the end of the Civil War in 1865, technically the era is considered to have begun in 1863, the year Lincoln issued the executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation. The book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize for the year's best book about American history. In offering a summary of the Reconstruction Era in America-starting with President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and ending with the Compromise of 1877-Foner adopts a moderate Revisionist view, arguing that Reconstruction was neither an unmitigated disaster nor a sufficiently progressive effort to enfranchise and empower black Americans. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) is a non-fiction book by the American historian Eric Foner.
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