Author: Lawanda Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597404082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice 1865-1866: Dilemma of Reconstruction America
Author: Lawanda Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597404082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597404082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice 1865-1866
Author: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866 [by] LaWanda Cox and John H. Cox
Author: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866
Author: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866; Dilemma of Reconstruction America [by] LaWanda Cox and John H. Cox
Author: John Henry Cox (1907- joint author)
Publisher: [New York] Free Press of Glencoe [1963]
ISBN:
Category : Negroes Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher: [New York] Free Press of Glencoe [1963]
ISBN:
Category : Negroes Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866
Author: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866
Author: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881
Author: Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817305572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Who was this scalawag? Simply a native, white, Alabama Republican! Scorned by his fellow white Southerners, he suffered, in his desire for socioeconomic reform and political power, more than mere verbal abuse and social ostracism; he lived constantly under the threat of physical violence. When first published in 1977, Wiggin’s treatment of the scalawag was the first book-length study of scalawags in any state, and it remains the most thorough treatment. According to The Journal of American History, this is the “most effective challenge to the scalawag stereotype yet to appear.”
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817305572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Who was this scalawag? Simply a native, white, Alabama Republican! Scorned by his fellow white Southerners, he suffered, in his desire for socioeconomic reform and political power, more than mere verbal abuse and social ostracism; he lived constantly under the threat of physical violence. When first published in 1977, Wiggin’s treatment of the scalawag was the first book-length study of scalawags in any state, and it remains the most thorough treatment. According to The Journal of American History, this is the “most effective challenge to the scalawag stereotype yet to appear.”
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
Author: Daniel W. Crofts
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent war, the new president even offered to accept a constitutional amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the slave states. Lincoln made this key overture in his first inaugural address. Crofts unearths the hidden history and political maneuvering behind the stillborn attempt to enact this amendment, the polar opposite of the actual Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 that ended slavery. This compelling book sheds light on an overlooked element of Lincoln's statecraft and presents a relentlessly honest portrayal of America's most admired president. Crofts rejects the view advanced by some Lincoln scholars that the wartime momentum toward emancipation originated well before the first shots were fired. Lincoln did indeed become the "Great Emancipator," but he had no such intention when he first took office. Only amid the crucible of combat did the war to save the Union become a war for freedom.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent war, the new president even offered to accept a constitutional amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the slave states. Lincoln made this key overture in his first inaugural address. Crofts unearths the hidden history and political maneuvering behind the stillborn attempt to enact this amendment, the polar opposite of the actual Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 that ended slavery. This compelling book sheds light on an overlooked element of Lincoln's statecraft and presents a relentlessly honest portrayal of America's most admired president. Crofts rejects the view advanced by some Lincoln scholars that the wartime momentum toward emancipation originated well before the first shots were fired. Lincoln did indeed become the "Great Emancipator," but he had no such intention when he first took office. Only amid the crucible of combat did the war to save the Union become a war for freedom.
When the War Was Over
Author: Dan T. Carter
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a small level of order to the lawless southern terrain. Dan T. Carter's When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy -- the co-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men -- former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters -- who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude. Carter finds that as a group the politicians who emerged in the postwar South failed critically in the test of their leadership. Not only were they unable to construct a realistic program for the region's recovery -- a failure rooted in their stubborn refusal to accept the full consequences of emancipation -- but their actions also served to exacerbate rather than allay the fears and apprehensions of the victorious North. Even so, Carter reveals, these leaders were not the monsters that many scholars have suggested they were, and it is misleading to dismiss them as racists and political incompetents. In important ways, they represented the most constructive, creative, and imaginative response that the white South, overwhelmed with defeat and social chaos, had to offer in 1865 and 1866. Out of their efforts would come the New South movement and, with it, the final downfall of the plantation system and the beginnings of social justice for the freed slaves.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a small level of order to the lawless southern terrain. Dan T. Carter's When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy -- the co-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men -- former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters -- who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude. Carter finds that as a group the politicians who emerged in the postwar South failed critically in the test of their leadership. Not only were they unable to construct a realistic program for the region's recovery -- a failure rooted in their stubborn refusal to accept the full consequences of emancipation -- but their actions also served to exacerbate rather than allay the fears and apprehensions of the victorious North. Even so, Carter reveals, these leaders were not the monsters that many scholars have suggested they were, and it is misleading to dismiss them as racists and political incompetents. In important ways, they represented the most constructive, creative, and imaginative response that the white South, overwhelmed with defeat and social chaos, had to offer in 1865 and 1866. Out of their efforts would come the New South movement and, with it, the final downfall of the plantation system and the beginnings of social justice for the freed slaves.