LEADER 04580nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910778181703321 005 20221108043308.0 010 $a0-674-26665-X 010 $a0-674-04269-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674042698 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786788 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135615 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135615 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063264 035 $a(PQKB)11544817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300408 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318400 035 $a(OCoLC)923111147 035 $a(DE-B1597)574443 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674042698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300408 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786788 100 $a20040329d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe death of Reconstruction$b[electronic resource] $erace, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 /$fHeather Cox Richardson 205 $a1st Harvard University Press pbk ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2004, c2001 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-674-00637-2 311 $a0-674-01366-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) and index. 327 $aPreface 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 330 $aThe author examines such issues as black suffrage, disengranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. 330 $bHistorians 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. 606 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$xPublic opinion 606 $aFreed persons$zSouthern States$xPublic opinion 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zNortheastern States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1900 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y1865-1918 607 $aNortheastern States$xRace relations 615 0$aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aFreed persons$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory 676 $a973.8 700 $aRichardson$b Heather Cox$01462632 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778181703321 996 $aThe death of Reconstruction$93671676 997 $aUNINA