Freedom Bound.

by Henrietta Buckmaster

The story of Reconstruction is a tremendous inspiration as well as a remarkable blueprint for today. And with passion and searing truth, Henrietta Buckmaster tells here the story of those seven short years—1868 to 1875 - in which liberty blazed brightly in our southern states. Freedom Bound does not boast, it docu- ments; it does not preach, it shows; it does not hint, it proves. Here Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner rise and speak again in the halls of Congress. Here carpetbaggers and scalawags emerge from a century of mockery. And those “gibbering, louse-eaten, devil worshipping. . . . African savages” of ignominious legend-the Negro freedmen and their leaders -resume their proper stature as men of knowledge, men of wisdom and vision. Reading Freedom Bound, one understands as never before the true greatness of the First Reconstruction -- and why burning crosses, hooded night riders, and the still, muddy waters of the Mississippi have been unable to obliterate Reconstruction from the free hearts of men.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1965