LEADER 04473nam 2200685 450 001 9910808991603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0108-8 010 $a1-5017-0109-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501701092 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470677 035 $a(EBL)4189238 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545138 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545138 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13897156 035 $a(PQKB)10881248 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189238 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551700 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58391 035 $a(DE-B1597)478361 035 $a(OCoLC)1004882245 035 $a(OCoLC)919921587 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501701092 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470677 100 $a20151223h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSuffrage reconstructed $egender, race, and voting rights in the Civil War era /$fLaura E. Free 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8014-5086-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: We, the People --$t1. The White Man's Government --$t2. Manhood and Citizenship --$t3. The Family Politic --$t4. The Rights of Men --$t5. That Word "Male" --$t6. White Women's Rights --$tConclusion: By Reason of Race --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aWomen$xSuffrage$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSuffrage$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSuffrage$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen's rights$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 610 $aFourteenth Amendment, Voting Rights, sufferage, Congress, Women's Sufferage, Racism, reconstruction. 615 0$aWomen$xSuffrage$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSuffrage$xHistory 615 0$aSuffrage$xHistory 615 0$aWomen's rights$xHistory 676 $a324.6/2097309034 700 $aFree$b Laura E.$f1971-$01718882 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808991603321 996 $aSuffrage reconstructed$94116195 997 $aUNINA