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Author Hume, Richard L.

Title Blacks, carpetbaggers, and scalawags : the constitutional conventions of radical Reconstruction / Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  E668 .H95 2008    Available  ---
Description xii, 528 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-508) and index.
Summary Using census records, the authors analyze the age, occupation, property holdings, literacy, and slaveholdings of 839 of the 1,018 delegates that composed the constitutional conventions of the ten former Confederate states. They then correlate the racial and socioeconomic status of delegates to voting patterns and incorporate their quantitative findings into the narrative histories of each convention, providing for the first time a detailed analysis of these assemblies.
Contents A tremendous and searching social revolution -- Virginia and Arkansas : victory from the jaws of defeat and defeat from the jaws of victory -- Alabama and Mississippi : imposed victory -- Georgia and North Carolina : Governors Brown and Holden, eminences grises right and left -- Louisiana and South Carolina : anomalous stereotypes -- Florida and Texas : foreshadowing failure -- Summary and conclusions.
Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Southern States.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1865-1950
Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racially mixed people -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
History.
Constitutional conventions -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Constitutional conventions.
Constitutional history -- Southern States.
Constitutional history.
Radicalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Radicalism.
Added Author Gough, Jerry B., 1940-
ISBN 9780807133248 cloth alkaline paper
0807133248 cloth alkaline paper