The book also tries to figure out the meaning of the 19th century racial drawings, cartoons and photographs which represent the efforts of the Black Americans to gain their equal status in the nation. Black Americans still feel that they are not accepted in the American society ruled by the Whites. As what Gartison Frazier had said, I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will get years to get over (Foner, 2005). Although some Blacks after the Civil War and during the Emancipation period were given positions in the government or have been successful in their life, still many Black Americans were considered inferior. In the beginning chapters of the book, Eric Foner presents the on-going struggle experienced by the Black Americans in a White-dominated society. Moreover, many American historians found proof that African-Americans really did not experience true freedom. Evidences that counters the conventional view about what really happened to the Black Americans during the post-Civil War were also shown. Forever Free by Eric Foner is a summary of the truth about the Black American status after the Civil War.
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