Rehearsal for Reconstruction
The Port Royal Experiment
Title Details
Pages: 464
Illustrations: 18 photos
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.250in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/01/1999
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2061-8
List Price: $34.95
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction
The Port Royal Experiment
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Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands.
Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
A marvelous book.
—New Yorker
A definitive work.
—New York Times Book Review
A disturbing, beautifully told story.
—New York Review of Books
A triumph of historical analysis [and] a detailed recreation of some of the Civil War's noblest hopes and greatest tragedies.
—David Brion Davis
First-rate history.
—Journal of American History