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The first Reconstruction : Black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War / Van Gosse.
Author
Gosse, Van
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Description
745 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
African Americans
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Politics and government
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18th century
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African Americans
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Politics and government
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19th century
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African Americans
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History
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To 1863
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Series
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Summary note
"It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential electoral black politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War--as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in U.S. electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Our Appeal for a Republican Birthright: The Ideology of Black Republicanism before the Civil War
PART I. Caste versus Citizenship in Pennsylvania
Citizens for Protection: The Shadow Politics of Greater Philadelphia, 1780-1842
A Large Body of Negro Votes Have Controlled the Late Election: Black Politics in Pennsylvania, 1790-1838
Coda: The Pennsylvania Default
PART II. The New England Redoubt
All the Black Men Vote for Mr. Otis: Nonracial Politics in the Yankee Republic, 1778-1830
The Colored Men of Portland Have Always Enjoyed All Their Rights: The Politics of Respect
The Very Sebastopol of Niggerdom: Measuring Black Power in New Bedford
We Are True Whigs: Reconstruction in Rhode Island
Coda: The New England Impasse
PART III. The New York Battleground
Negroes Have Votes as Good as Yours or Mine: Coming to Grips in New York, 1777-1821
We Think for Ourselves: Making the Battleground, 1822-1846
Consult the Genius of Expediency: Approaching Power, 1847-1860
Coda: Losing and Winning in the Empire State
PART IV. A Salient on the West
We Do Not Care How Black He Is: Ohio's Black Republicans
Coda: Ohio, Flanked
Conclusion: Going to War
Appendix: Black Leaders and Their Electorates.
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ISBN
9781469660103 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
1469660105 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2020018437
OCLC
1147888479
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