The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910University of Georgia Press, 2012 M01 15 - 480 páginas After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. The Trial of Democracy is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and mechanisms that led to the implementation of black suffrage and the ultimate failure to maintain a stable northern constituency to support enforcement on a permanent basis. The reforms stirred fierce debates over the political and constitutional value of black suffrage, the legitimacy of racial equality, and the proper sharing of power between the state and federal governments. Unlike most studies of Reconstruction, this book follows these issues into the early twentieth century to examine the impact of the constitutional principles and the rise of Jim Crow. Tying constitutional history to party politics, The Trial of Democracy is a vital contribution to both fields. |
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... southern policy and did oscillate between different approaches toward maintaining black suffrage in the South. In 1890, after they regained control of both the legislative and executive branches, the Republicans launched another battle ...
... government was founded on the consent of the governed. The goal of the Republican ... southern slaveholders, and she urged them to stand “firmly in one united ... policy would disturb the race relations, conservatives preferred to disavow ...
... South that the existing federal policy regarding slavery in the territories would not be changed in his administration. Such a pledge, reasoned Welles, would dismiss southern apprehensions that Republicans were “to be abolitionists” and ...
... South would be counted for national representation, and even if they remained ... southern freedmen must be allowed to participate in reorganizing the South ... policy, as indicated in his 10 Percent Plan in December 1863. But Lincoln ...
... South to study the political situation there, repeatedly urged Johnson to take action on black suffrage in making his reconstruction policy. North Carolina blacks also directly appealed to the. The Road to the Fifteenth Amendment 19.
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Chapter Two The Making of Federal Enforcement Laws 18701872 | 49 |
Chapter Three The Anatomy of Enforcement 18701876 | 93 |
Chapter Four The Hayes Administration and Black Suffrage 18761880 | 134 |
Chapter Five The Survival of a Principle 18801888 | 180 |
Chapter Six The Rise and Fall of Reenforcement 18881891 | 216 |
Epilogue Equality Deferred 18921910 | 253 |
Appendix One Enforcement Act of May 31 1870 | 267 |
Appendix Four Enforcement Act of April 20 1871 | 288 |
Appendix Five Enforcement Rider in the Civil Appropriation Act of June 10 1872 | 292 |
Appendix Six Sections from the Enforcement Acts in the Revised Statutes Their Repeals and Amendments | 294 |
Appendix Seven Criminal Prosecutions under Enforcement Acts 18701894 by Section and Year | 300 |
Appendix Eight Strength Distribution of the Major Parties in the Federal Government 18611909 | 302 |
Abbreviations | 303 |
Notes | 305 |
Selected Bibliography | 375 |
Appendix Two Naturalization Act of July 14 1870 | 275 |
Appendix Three Enforcement Act of February 28 1871 | 278 |
Index | 397 |
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The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910 Xi Wang Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910 Wang, Xi Vista previa limitada - 1997 |