Publication

1999 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

110,500 words, Guess

Page Count

442 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100820320617
  • ISBN-139780820320618
  • Goodreads1045662
  • Library of Congress Control Number98003851
  • OCLC Control Number38842012
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780820320618
  • Open LibraryOL344871M

Classifications

  • DDC975.7/99
  • LCCF279.P6 R67 1999
  • LCCF279.P6R67 1998
and 2 more
  • DDC975.7995
  • LCCF277.B3

Description

An account of the first experiment in Reconstruction, the effort of northern missionary abolitionists to assist the abandoned slaves of Sea Island, South Carolina establish schools, train troops, claim land ownership, and accept their status as freed men.

First Sentence

FALL CAME LATE TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1861.

Description

"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 of their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands.". "Rehearsal for Reconstruction is historian Willie Lee Rose's award-winning 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

SlavesNegroesHistoryEntomologySea islandsSea IslandsEmancipation

Places

IslandsSea IslandsSouth CarolinaS.C Sea IslandsS.C. Sea IslandsPort Royal RegionSea Islands (S.C.)

Times

Other Editions

  • Rehearsal for Reconstruction: the Port Royal experimentUniversity of Georgia Press1999-01-01
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