Suffrage Reconstructed : : Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era /

Suffrage Reconstructed : : Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era / / Laura E. Free.

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The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment's authors made thi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Free, Laura E.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: We, the People
  • 1. The White Man's Government
  • 2. Manhood and Citizenship
  • 3. The Family Politic
  • 4. The Rights of Men
  • 5. That Word "Male"
  • 6. White Women's Rights
  • Conclusion: By Reason of Race
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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