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Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books) Paperback – March 1, 1999

by Willie Lee Rose (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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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.

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    University of Georgia Press
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    March 1, 1999
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  6. ISBN-10
    0820320617
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0820320618
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A disturbing, beautifully told story.

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A triumph of historical analysis [and] a detailed recreation of some of the Civil War's noblest hopes and greatest tragedies.

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First-rate history.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Georgia Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 1999
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0820320617
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0820320618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.17 x 8.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,571,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • C.E. Staples
    5.0 out of 5 stars When Seeds of Freedom are Sown
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018
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    In November 1861, shortly after the start of the U.S. Civil War, the Union fleet took command of Port Royal, South Carolina and neighboring sea islands. Plantation owners fled leaving behind 10,000 slaves, and a bumper crop of sea island cotton. A project was conceived known as the Port Royal Experiment. Its purpose? By working with this group of 10,000 freed slaves, in a relatively contained area, perhaps solutions could be found for the greater looming challenge of how to integrate into society millions of emancipated slaves. At least three different groups were involved in the experiment, including Northern missionaries who focused on education and training, entrepreneurs who wanted to show the profitability of free labor versus slave labor, and the U.S. government which, most immediately, needed more men on the battlefield. These groups sometimes worked together but were more often at odds. Rose's book is an outstanding scholarly analysis of this experiment, of what worked, what didn't work, and what lessons were learned and later lost. A necessary read I think to have a deeper understanding of slavery in the U.S., the Civil War and the struggle to understand, define and nurture freedom.
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  • Ralph Lee Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars History of a fascinating Civil War event
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2015
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    A fine history of a largely forgotten but important event in the Civil War. This book won four top history awards, and richly deserves the honors it has achieved. The efforts of northern groups who sent administrators, ministers and teachers to the South Carolina Sea Islands to help the ten thousand slaves who were left to their fates when their owners fled from Union conquest of the islands, is a fascinating tale. Best of all were the teachers who brought literacy to the illiterate ex-slaves and their children. That lady with the two children on the cover of the book is Laura Towne of Philadelphia, who co-founded a school on St. Helena Island in 1862 and remained there as a teacher for the rest of her life. It will make you say to yourself, "What have I ever done that compares with it?"
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  • B.W. Rosancrans
    4.0 out of 5 stars Historial Information Worth Knowing
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2005
    Standing from an academic point of view Rehearsal for Reconstruction (RfR) is undoubtedly useful for information pretaining to Reconstruction. RfR illustrates the problems that were set forth during reconstruction, but limits and expands them to a setting of the Port Royal Experiment (PRE). Themes that arise in the book are those of Southern social changes in labor (move from slavery to free labor), economics (decline therein), and politics (freedmen's move into the political atmosphere). It illustrates how northern attitudes change during the shadowy and turbulent era and also how Nothern Freedmen associations and/or missonaries came to the south to help with the project. Also, Rose will show how the racial attitudes, race relations, and social class structure were affected by the Civil War and Reconstruction. And finally, RfR will develop your knowledge on land distriburtion and land disputes among the planters and the freedmen.

    Rose takes you through stories that depict just how life was in the Port Royal experiment. Although you do not need to have a degree in history or need to have a previous understanding of the topic at hand, Rose will show how things were in a revissionist style.

    I would highly recomend this book on two accounts; 1.) if you are interested in the topic of Reconstruction or even the American Civil War for that part, this would be a good book to read for pleasure. 2.) This book is very useful for academic research. Although you will be directed to the topic of the PRE, you will still be capible of extracting meaningful and useful information that will assist you in your studies.
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  • Billy Keyserling
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read if one wants to understand where modern america began.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2013
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    A must read if one wants to understand where modern america began. This is to my knowledge the most comprehensive tale of reconstruction, where it began and the challenges of transitioning this country. I read this book years ago and just reread it as I would like to build a museum on this period and Willie Lee Rose certainly laid out a road map.
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  • Cynthia P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition, delivered promptly
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019
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    The book is in excellent condition and delivered as promised. It's an old book, but looks rather new. I am pleased.
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  • Diane Mautner
    3.0 out of 5 stars reconstruction
    Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2014
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    This is a book for a very specific reader. I'm sure that it is meant for a population interested in the Civil War era in regards to slaves and slavery.
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  • Student4life
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book I can't put it down
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2015
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    Arrived on time and in new condition. A great book I can't put it down. It's a wonderful real and a must for any true historian of this period.
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  • Ms. P-G
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2014
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    This was a text I learned about over 20 years ago and I have always wanted to purchase a copy for my personal collection. Love it!
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