| Edition |
1st Harvard University Press pbk ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: the view from Atlanta, 1895 -- The Northern postwar vision, 1865-1867 -- 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: Booker T. Washington rises Up from slavery, 1901. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 19th century.
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 19th century. |
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Republican Party (États-Unis : 1854- ) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. |
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Reconstruction -- Public opinion.
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Freed persons -- Southern States -- Public opinion.
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Freed persons. |
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Southern States. |
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Public opinion. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Public opinion.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Public opinion. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Public opinion -- Northeastern States.
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Northeastern States. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1900 |
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1918 |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
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Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Working class. |
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Northeastern States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Richardson, Heather Cox. Death of Reconstruction. 1st Harvard University Press pbk ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004, ©2001 0674013662 9780674013667 (OCoLC)54830051 |
| ISBN |
9780674042698 (electronic book) |
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0674042697 (electronic book) |
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0674013662 |
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9780674013667 |
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0674013662 |
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9780674013667 |
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0674006372 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674006379 (alkaline paper) |
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