04580nam 2200745Ia 450 991077818170332120221108043308.00-674-26665-X0-674-04269-710.4159/9780674042698(CKB)1000000000786788(StDuBDS)AH23050853(SSID)ssj0000135615(PQKBManifestationID)11146484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135615(PQKBWorkID)10063264(PQKB)11544817(Au-PeEL)EBL3300408(CaPaEBR)ebr10318400(OCoLC)923111147(DE-B1597)574443(DE-B1597)9780674042698(MiAaPQ)EBC3300408(EXLCZ)99100000000078678820040329d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe death of Reconstruction[electronic resource] race, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 /Heather Cox Richardson1st Harvard University Press pbk ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press2004, c20011 online resource (336 p.)Originally published: 2001.0-674-00637-2 0-674-01366-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) and index.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 IndexThe author examines such issues as black suffrage, disengranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction.Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth. Using newspapers, public speeches, popular tracts, Congressional reports, and private correspondence, Richardson traces the changing Northern attitudes toward African-Americans from the Republicans' idealized image of black workers in 1861 through the 1901 publication of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery. She examines such issues as black suffrage, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity. The Death of Reconstruction offers a new perspective on American race and labor and demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Public opinionFreed personsSouthern StatesPublic opinionAfrican AmericansCivil rightsPublic opinionPublic opinionNortheastern StatesAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory19th centuryWorking classUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1865-1900United StatesEconomic conditions1865-1918Northeastern StatesRace relationsReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Public opinion.Freed personsPublic opinion.African AmericansCivil rightsPublic opinion.Public opinionAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryWorking classHistory973.8Richardson Heather Cox1462632MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778181703321The death of Reconstruction3671676UNINA