04473nam 2200685 450 991079740850332120200520144314.01-5017-0108-81-5017-0109-610.7591/9781501701092(CKB)3710000000470677(EBL)4189238(SSID)ssj0001545138(PQKBManifestationID)16135492(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545138(PQKBWorkID)13897156(PQKB)10881248(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500156(MiAaPQ)EBC4189238(OCoLC)1080551700(MdBmJHUP)muse58391(DE-B1597)478361(OCoLC)1004882245(OCoLC)919921587(DE-B1597)9781501701092(EXLCZ)99371000000047067720151223h20152015 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrSuffrage reconstructed gender, race, and voting rights in the Civil War era /Laura E. FreeIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (246 p.)Includes index.0-8014-5086-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexThe 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 this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women's rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women's inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment's congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one's capacity to vote. Stanton's actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War-era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women's rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.WomenSuffrageUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansSuffrageHistory19th centurySuffrageUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWomen's rightsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryFourteenth Amendment, Voting Rights, sufferage, Congress, Women's Sufferage, Racism, reconstruction.WomenSuffrageHistoryAfrican AmericansSuffrageHistorySuffrageHistoryWomen's rightsHistory324.6/2097309034Free Laura E.1971-1560508MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797408503321Suffrage reconstructed3826539UNINA