Wars of Reconstruction The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

Name: Wars of Reconstruction The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
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ISBN: 9781608195664

ISBN-10: 160819566X

ISBN-13: 9781608195664

Edition: 2014

Authors: Douglas R. Egerton

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By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The brief years of Reconstruction marked the United States’ most progressive moment prior…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/27/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English