The Death of Reconstruction : : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 /

The Death of Reconstruction : : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 / / Heather Cox Richardson.

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Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Richardson, Heather Cox,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue: The View from Atlanta, 1895
  • 1. The Northern Postwar Vision, 1865-1867
  • 2. The Mixed Blessing of Universal Suffrage, 1867-1870
  • 3. Black Workers and the South Carolina Government, 1871-1875
  • 4. Civil Rights and the Growth of the National Government, 1870-1883
  • 5. The Black Exodus from the South, 1879-1880
  • 6. The Un-American Negro, 1880-1900
  • Epilogue: Booker T. Washington Rises Up from Slavery, 1901
  • Notes
  • Index

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