Urban Emancipation
Download and Read Urban Emancipation full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Urban Emancipation ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Urban Emancipation
Author | : Michael W. Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807128374 |
Download Urban Emancipation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Scholars of Reconstruction have generally described Republican party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the Radical agenda evoked unified black support. As Michael W. Fitzgerald shows in the first major study of black popular politics in the urban South in the years surrounding the Civil War, that depiction oversimplifies a contentious and often overlooked intraracial dynamic. Republican political power, he argues, heightened divisions within the African American community, divisions that were ultimately a major factor in the failure of Reconstruction. Focusing on Mobile, the Confederacy’s fourth largest city, Fitzgerald traces how the rivalry between longtime black residents and destitute freedmen fleeing the countryside yielded a startlingly antagonistic political scene. He demonstrates that the Republican factionalism that helped doom Reconstruction went beyond competing cliques of white officeholders. Boldly challenging reigning theories about the nature of post–Civil War politics, Urban Emancipation will spark historical debate for years to come.
Urban Emancipation Related Books
Pages: 324
Pages: 240
Pages: 377
Pages: 344
Pages: 304