Eric Foner

A Short History of Reconstruction was difficult for me to read. Foner jumps ideas when he talks about the policies created after the reconstruction. When I was reading it was difficult for me to understand when Foner was still talking about the same policy or when he was discussing the details of a new policy. It might have been so confusing because of all the names he was relating to the policies. What I did pick up from the reading was how corrupt this time was. Whether a person was pro-slavery or anti-slavery, their intentions were never pure. When the North supports the freedmen it is for reasons that benefit themselves.