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1 online resource (356 pages) |
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text file |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 Introduction; A "Western Palmyra"; A Southern City; A Model City; The Capital and the Union; 2 Wartime Washington; Introduction; The Question of Loyalty; The Capital of the Union; "An Asylum for Free Negroes"; Contraband Labor; The "Contraband System"; Freedmens Aid; Conclusion; 3 The Freedmens Bureau in the District of Columbia; Introduction; The Work of the Bureau; Sanitation and Housing; The Problem of Relief; "A Vast Labor Bureau"; The Bureau as an Urban Welfare Agency; 4 Congressional Reconstruction in the District of Columbia. |
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An "Experimental Garden for the Propagation of Political Hybrids""The First Practical Triumph of Freedom"; Eradicating the Traces of Slavery; "A Pillar of Fire to Illumine the Footsteps of Millions": Black Suffrage; The Inauguration of Biracial Education; The Troublesome Question of Mixed Schools; A Partial Reconstruction; 5 Reconstructing the City Government; Introduction; The Mayoralty of Richard Wallach: Washingtons Ancien Régime; The Rise of the Republican Party; The Election of Sayles J. Bowen; Improvements; The Reform Republicans; Conclusion; 6 Race, Radicalism, and Reconstruction. |
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IntroductionBlack Voting; The Style of Grassroots Republican Politics; Taking It to the Streets; "The Great Want Is Work"; "To Become a People"; 7 A City and a State; "A Badly Governed City"; Congress as a City Council; The Charities of the District; The District Board of Health; The "Great Ditch": The Washington Canal; Washington and the B. & O. Monopoly; A City and a State; 8 From Biracial Democracy to Direct Rule; "Worthy of the Nation"; Reform of the Municipal Government; The Origins of the Territory; The Meteoric Career of the Board of Public Works; The Imposition of Direct Rule. |
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Reasons for the End of Representative Government9 Reconstruction in the Nations Capital; "The Capital of the Whole Nation"; Reconstruction in the District of Columbia; "The Paradise of Free Negroes"?; Congress and the District; Index. |
| Summary |
Provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War, and into the lives of the newly emancipated African Americans. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Washington (D.C.)
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Washington (D.C.) |
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Freed persons -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Freed persons. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harrison, Robert. Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction : Race and Radicalism. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107002326 |
| ISBN |
9781139092067 |
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1139092065 |
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9781139093088 (electronic book) |
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1139093088 (electronic book) |
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9781107002326 |
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110700232X |
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9786613316264 |
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