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The death of Reconstruction : race, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 / Heather Cox Richardson.
LIBRA E668 .R5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Heather Cox.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Reconstruction--Public opinion.
- Reconstruction.
- Freed persons--Southern States--Public opinion.
- Freed persons.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Public opinion.
- African Americans.
- Public opinion--Northeastern States.
- Public opinion.
- Race relations.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century.
- United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
- Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- Working class--United States--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- Northeastern States--Race relations.
- Northeastern States.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 312 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.
- Contents:
- Prologue: the view from Atlanta, 1895
- The Northern postwar vision, 1865-1867
- The mixed blessing of universal suffrage, 1867-1870
- Black workers and the South Carolina government, 1871-1875
- Civil rights and the growth of the national government, 1870-1883
- The Black exodus from the South, 1879-1880
- The un-American Negro, 1880-1900
- Epilogue: Booker T. Washington rises Up from slavery, 1901.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674006372
- OCLC:
- 46565122
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