This Cleveland-based literary prize is awarded to authors who address racism and diversity through their work. A professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, Foner is this year’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement winner. These two groups manipulated recently freed Black slaves leading to an era rife with corruption and incompetency.įoner has dedicated much his career to correcting this mistaken notion Reconstruction was a failure through his work as an academic as well as by authoring numerous books. “Carpetbaggers” from the North aided by opportunistic Southern “scalawags” came to take advantage of the recently defeated South. Growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Eric Foner said he was taught that the Reconstruction era, which followed the U.S.
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