Author: Providence Journal CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Providence Journal
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Half a Century with the Providence Journal
Author: Providence Journal CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Providence Journal
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: Brown University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: A Checklist of American Newspaper Carrier's Addresses, 1720-1820
Author: Publisher: Worcester : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Register of Debates in Congress
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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American Railroad Journal, and General Advertiser for Railroads, Canals, Steamboats, Machinery, and Mines
Author: The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The Death of Reconstruction
Author: Heather Cox RichardsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
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, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity. The Death of Reconstruction offers a new perspective on American race and labor and demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.
The Worst Passions of Human Nature
Author: Paul D. EscottPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394385X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The American North’s commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between progress on emancipation and the persistence of white supremacy in the Civil War North. Escott analyzes northern politics, as well as the racial attitudes revealed in the era’s literature, to expose the nearly ubiquitous racism that flourished in all of American society and culture. Contradicting much recent scholarship, Escott argues that the North’s Democratic Party was consciously and avowedly "the white man’s party," as an extensive examination of Democratic newspapers, as well as congressional debates and other speeches by Democratic leaders, proves. The Republican Party, meanwhile, defended emancipation as a war measure but did little to attack racism or fight for equal rights. Most Republicans propagated a message that emancipation would not disturb northern race relations or the interests of northern white voters: freed slaves, it was felt, would either leave the nation or remain in the South as subordinate laborers. Escott’s book uncovers the substantial and destructive racism that lay beyond the South’s borders. Although emancipation represented enormous progress, racism flourished in the North, and assumptions of white supremacy remained powerful and nearly ubiquitous throughout America.
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