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Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment
By (Author) Peyton McCrary
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
976.305
Hardback
444
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
964g
After victorious federal troops swept through southern Louisiana in 1862, the state became the testing ground for Abraham Lincoln's approach to reconstruction, and thus the focal point for the debate over post-war policy in Washington. Peyton McCrary offers a comprehensive account of the social and political upheavals in Louisiana, set against the