The Right to Vote Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillette, William.

Series:

The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--15th Amendment.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.) group port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1969]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1965. The Right to Vote covers the immediate background, passage, and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Gillette contends that the Fifteenth Amendment was intended to give voting rights to African Americans in the north, sidelining those in the south. African American suffrage, in other words, had the pragmatic effect of bringing power to the Republicans of the north. In short, the Fifteenth Amendment was not a radical document but rather was pushed by Republican moderates in an effort to consolidate their power.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Frontispiece

Preface

Preface to The Paperback Edition

The Knot of Reconstruction

II. Paralysis and Passage

III. The Fight for Ratification

IV. Southern Reception

V. Border State Opposition

VI. Middle Atlantic Compromise

VII. Middle Western Conflict

VIII. New England Acceptance and far Western Rejection

IX. Whirlwind of Caution

Epilogue: The Black Voter and the White Historian

Bibliography

Index

Table 1: Potential Negro Vote in the Northern States Affected by the Fifteenth Amendment

Table 2: Chronology of Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

Table 3: Rank of Ratifying States

Table 4: Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by States of the Former Confederacy

Table 5: The Border States and the Potential Negro Vote.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 191-201.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0218-0

1-4214-3234-X

OCLC:

756445102