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The Risen Phoenix. Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South.
Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego
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Description for The Risen Phoenix. Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South.
Hardback. Series: The American South Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida, and George Henry White of North Carolina. Drawing on a rich combination of traditional political history, gender and black history, and the history of U.S. foreign relations, the book argues that African American congressmen effectively served ... Read more
The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida, and George Henry White of North Carolina. Drawing on a rich combination of traditional political history, gender and black history, and the history of U.S. foreign relations, the book argues that African American congressmen effectively served ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
The American South Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938745
SKU
V9780813938745
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About Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego
Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego is an Adjunct Professor of History at Union County College
Reviews for The Risen Phoenix. Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South.
Eminently readable and comprehensively researched, Dinnella-Borrego’s examination of six black congressmen offers fascinating connections with earlier understandings of black politics during the Reconstruction era. As The Risen Phoenix brilliantly demonstrates, African Americans transformed antebellum freedom struggles into crusades for civil, political, and educational equality. A superb, important book.–Douglas Egerton, Le Moyne College, author of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, ... Read more