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Laura E. Free - Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era - 9780801450860 - V9780801450860
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Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era

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Description for Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSJ; JFSL; JPHF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction.

Free argues that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801450860
SKU
V9780801450860
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99-1

About Laura E. Free
Laura E. Free is Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Reviews for Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Much of the work analyzing the Reconstruction constitutional amendments and their connection to women's rights has focused on the Fifteenth Amendment's restriction of suffrage to men. Hobart and William Smith College associate professor of history Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed expands the discussion to a detailed analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment's deliberate inclusion of the word male. While examining the expansion ... Read more

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