Death of Reconstruction Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

Name: Death of Reconstruction Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
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ISBN: 9780674013667

ISBN-10: 0674013662

ISBN-13: 9780674013667

Edition: 2001

Authors: Heather Cox Richardson

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Historians 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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Heather Cox Richardsonis Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author ofWest from Appomattox;The Greatest Nation of the Earth; andThe Death of Reconstruction. She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.



Preface


Prologue: The View from Atlanta, 1895



The Northern Postwar Vision, 1865-4867



The Mixed Blessing of Universal Suffrage, 1867-1870



Black Workers and the South Carolina Government, 1871-1875



Civil Rights and the Growth of the National Government, 1870-1883



The Black Exodus from the South, 1879-1880



The Un-American Negro, 1880-1900


Epilogue



Notes


Index