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A 5 page review of Howard Fast's 1944 novel Freedom Road, which accurately portrays the struggle blacks following the Civil War to rebuild their lives and how they achieved this goal prior to the intervention of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Howard Fast, Freedom Road Research Compiled
By - properly! Eric Foner explains his introduction to Howard
Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstream white public that black suffrage was the most major
era committed during the Civil War era and that it would also be an egregious error for the North to intervene in the system of disenfranchisement and segregation that characterized
race relations in the South. As this indicates, Freedom Road had a major influence in educating the American public about the reality of the Reconstruction era. This examination of Freedom
Road begins with a brief biographical description of Fast. Then, the novel is summarized, describing the main characters and identifying its main themes, before concluding with a brief description of
this reviewers personal reaction and opinion of the text. Howard Fast was born on November 11, 1914 in New York City. His education included attendance at the National Academy
of Design and he received the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Award in 1933. He served overseas with the Office of War Information during World War II and also served as
a war correspondent. A prolific writer, Fast enjoyed a long career, as a writer, and also as a lecturer and political activist. His novels are primarily historical in context, as
Fast endeavored to humanize history by showing that historical figures, such as George Washington and Thomas Paine, had weaknesses, while also demonstrating the forces and character traits that led them
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