Title In the wake of slavery : Civil War, Civil Rights, and the reconstruction of Southern law / Joseph A. Ranney.

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Moore Stacks	KF4541 .R37 2006	Available	---

Description	x, 199 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
Contents	Introduction : the legal history of reconstruction -- Traveling the political dial : political and cultural forces that shaped reconstruction-era lawmakers -- Law and the wartime South -- The great wreck of property : coming to grips with emancipation -- Cleaning up after the Confederacy : the new federalism and allocation of losses of war -- The constitutional legacy of reconstruction -- A republic of paupers : shaping the individual's role in the postwar economy -- The South confronts corporations -- Reconstruction and womens rights -- Southern law during the Bourbon era (1877-1890) -- The impassable chasm : Southern law during the straight-out era (1890-1915) -- The legal legacy of reconstruction.
Subject	Constitutional history -- Southern States.
	Constitutional history.
	Southern States.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	History.
	Suffrage -- Southern States -- History.
	Suffrage.
	Women's rights -- Southern States -- History.
	Women's rights.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
	Race relations.
	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN	0275989720 alkaline paper
	9780275989729
Standard No.	9780275989729