#ManishaSinha discusses her book #TheRiseAndFallOfTheSecondAmericanRepublic: #Reconstruction, 1860–1920. The defeat of Reconstruction and its project of inter-racial democracy is presented as a Thermidorean event, laying the way for an imperial state girded in #racialCapitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXxfA5Ig8o&feature=youtu.be

#ReconstructionEra #Emancipation #UShistory #JimCrow #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #books @bookstodon @histodons