Project
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Division of Public Programs
Photo caption
Emancipation, print by Thomas Nast, c.1865
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Photo caption
Emancipation, print by Thomas Nast, c.1865
Courtesy of Library of Congress
View census data revealing the state-by-state impact of the Civil War and peruse primary documents that show the varied roles freed slaves, plantation owners, black legislators, and Northern carpetbaggers played in rebuilding the nation in the aftermath of war.