The Struggle for Equality : : Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition / / James M. McPherson.
Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New Preface |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION
- PREFACE
- KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE ELECTION OF 1860
- II. SECESSION AND THE COMING OF WAR
- III. THE EMANCIPATION ISSUE: 1861
- IV. EMANCIPATION AND PUBLIC OPINION: 1861-1862
- V. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
- VI. THE NEGRO: INNATELY INFERIOR OR EQUAL?
- VII. FREEDMEN'S EDUCATION, 1861-1865
- VIII. THE CREATION OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
- IX. MEN OF COLOR , TO ARMS!
- X. THE QUEST FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE NORTH
- XI. THE BALLOT AND LAND FOR THE FREEDMEN: 1861-1865
- XII. THE REELECTION OF LINCOLN
- XIII. SCHISM IN THE RANKS: 1864-1865
- XIV. ANDREW JOHNSON AND RECONSTRUCTION: 1865
- XV. THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE ELECTION OF 1866
- XVI. MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPEACHMENT
- XVII. EDUCATION AND CONFISCATION: 1865-1870
- XVIII. THE CLIMAX OF THE CRUSADE: THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
- INDEX