Black reconstruction in America : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

Originally published under title: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1935.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-737) and index.

I. The black worker -- II. The white worker -- III. The planter -- IV. The general strike -- V. The coming of the Lord -- VI. Looking backward -- VII. Looking forward -- VIII. The transubstantiation of a poor white -- IX. The price of disaster -- X. The black proletariat in South Carolina -- XI. The black proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana-- XII. The white proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida -- XIII. The duel for labor control on border and frontier -- XIV. Counter-revolution of property -- XV. Founding the public school -- XVI. Back toward slavery -- XVII. The propaganda of history.

"The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.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 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic." -- online.