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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456813303321

Autore

Dudden Faye E

Titolo

Fighting chance [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America / / Faye E. Dudden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-025447-5

1-283-16025-0

9786613160256

0-19-977318-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

324.6/208996073

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - United States - History - 19th century

African Americans - Suffrage - History - 19th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Age Is Ripe for the Woman Question; 2. Black Rights, Women's Rights, and Civil War; 3. The "Negro's Hour"; 4. The Struggle for Equal Rights; 5. Kansas; 6. Revolutionary Journalism and Political Opportunism; 7. The Fight over the Fifteenth Amendment; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history--a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure.