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I Saw Death Coming Format:Hardcover then touches an old daguerreotype—theFrom a groundbreaking scholar, a heart wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction era South, and what it cost. The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were