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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778181703321

Autore

Richardson Heather Cox

Titolo

The death of Reconstruction [[electronic resource] ] : race, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 / / Heather Cox Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004, c2001

ISBN

0-674-26665-X

0-674-04269-7

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

973.8

Soggetti

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

Freed persons - Southern States - Public opinion

African Americans - Civil rights - Public opinion

Public opinion - Northeastern States

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Working class - United States - History - 19th century

United States Politics and government 1865-1900

United States Economic conditions 1865-1918

Northeastern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Prologue: The View from Atlanta, 1895 1. The Northern Postwar Vision, 1865-4867 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

Sommario/riassunto

The author examines such issues as black suffrage, disengranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction.