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The Death of Reconstruction

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Description for The Death of Reconstruction Paperback. The author examines such issues as black suffrage, disengranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674013667
SKU
V9780674013667
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About Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is Associate Professor of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews for The Death of Reconstruction
The Death of Reconstruction offers a provocative explanation of why Northerners after the Civil War gradually and often reluctantly abandoned their efforts on behalf of the Southern freedmen. Not ignoring virulent racism directed at African Americans, Richardson shows that it was less race than class that brought about the end of Reconstruction. An important, impressively documented book, The Death of ... Read more

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