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The Death of Reconstruction : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Po
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Name
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674006379
- Book Title
- Death of Reconstruction : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Economic Conditions, Political Process / Political Parties
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 330 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674006372
ISBN-13
9780674006379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1893190
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death of Reconstruction : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Number of Pages
330 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Economic Conditions, Political Process / Political Parties
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-024212
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
[Richardson] makes extensive use of contemporary newspaper articles, periodicals, speeches, and personal accounts to capture this tumultuous era in American history. Highly recommended for academic libraries., At last readers have an explanation of why the Republican Party, founded in antislavery, dedicated to emancipation, and the political inspiration for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, abandoned those causes in favor of an ideology which acquiesced in the disenfranchisement of blacks and in the triumph of Jim Crow. Arguing that Republicans came to see the majority of African Americans as potential labor radicals in the tradition of the Paris Commune and the labor agitation of the US strikes of the late 19th century, [Richardson]...documents that this led to political abandonment...This is an important contribution for all historians who want a better understanding of the South or the African American experience, and anyone who wants good political history., In The Death of Reconstruction the author's main concern is with attitudes in the North, not in the states of the former Confederacy. She notes that most Northerners had little direct contact with blacks, because only 10 percent of them lived in the North. In the years immediately after the war, the Republican press in the North took a benign view of blacks as a group, portraying them as poor but eager to work their way to prosperity as free labor...The most interesting aspect of this book is the reminder it affords that the debate over "affirmative action" is not a modern phenomenon but can be traced back to the 19th century...[Richardson's] focus on class conflict is a useful addition to other writings on the Gilded Age.
Dewey Decimal
973.8
Table Of Content
Preface 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
Synopsis
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 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.
LC Classification Number
E668.R5 2001