| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Canada and the United States

Randolph B. Campbell. Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865–1888. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. Pp. x, 251. $35.00.

Hoping, in part, to disabuse Texans of their belief that Reconstruction was "one of the darkest pages in their state's history" (p. 232), Randolph B. Campbell detailed six county histories to show how Reconstruction issues "came home to people at the local level" (p. 1). In so far as Campbell demonstrates that Reconstruction meant "progress" to many groups, while not generally displacing old economic elites, he does a convincing job. This well-documented study shows that the impact Reconstruction had on the lives of people at the grass roots varied considerably, depending on many local factors. Despite this variety, however, Reconstruction was "largely democratic" and "nonrevolutionary" for the freedpeople. While perhaps not revolutionary, Reconstruction "contained much that was positive" (pp. 230–31). . . .

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