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""With thorough research and methodology, Robert Bland navigates the complicated road to freedom and how Black people, countering many and various limitations, created and preserved their own history--the true history of Reconstruction. Requiem for Reconstruction is a major contribution to the booming field on memory studies, elucidating the deliberate effort to erase Black contributions to postbellum American history. This is a brilliant book, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed.""--Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln: A History

""This book's exploration of the Reconstruction generation and the Black countermemory it built is a groundbreaking contribution to the field, successfully integrating Civil War and Reconstruction scholarship with African American political and intellectual history. It is an important, insightful, and exciting work.""--Amy Murrell Taylor, author of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps ""With thorough research and methodology, Robert Bland navigates the complicated road to freedom and how Black people, countering many and various limitations, created and preserved their own history--the true history of Reconstruction. Requiem for Reconstruction is a major contribution to the booming field on memory studies, elucidating the deliberate effort to erase Black contributions to postbellum American history. This is a brilliant book, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed.""--Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln: A History

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Robert D. Bland is assistant professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Tennessee.

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