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The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 069110039X
ISBN-13:: 9780691100395
Pub. Date:: 02/21/1976
Publisher:: Princeton University Press

ISBN-10:: 069110039X
ISBN-13:: 9780691100395
Pub. Date:: 02/21/1976
Publisher:: Princeton University Press

The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP / Edition 2

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Overview

Building on arguments presented in The Struggle for Equality, James McPherson shows that many abolitionists did not retreat from Reconstruction, as historical accounts frequently lead us to believe, but instead vigorously continued the battle for black rights long after the Civil War. Tracing the activities of nearly 300 abolitionists and their descendants, he reveals that some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910. The author's examination of the complex and unhappy fate of Reconstruction clarifies the uneasy partnership of northern and southern white liberals after 1870, the tensions between black activists and white neo-abolitionists, the evolution of resistance to racist ideologies, and the origins of the NAACP.

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ISBN-13:	9780691100395
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	02/21/1976
Series:	Princeton Paperbacks Series
Edition description:	With a New preface by the author
Pages:	456
Sales rank:	713,603
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James M. McPherson is Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, as well as What They Fought For, 1861-1865; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution; Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction; and The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union.

Hometown:

Princeton, New Jersey

Date of Birth:

October 11, 1936

Place of Birth:

Valley City, North Dakota

Education:

B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) 1958; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963

Preface to the 1995 Edition

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Ch. 1 Unfinished Task: The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Ch. 2 Reconstruction Reconfirmed? The Election of 1872

Ch. 3 Reconstruction Unravels, 1873-1876

Ch. 4 Time, Education, and Bootstraps

Ch. 5 The Compromise of 1877

Ch. 6 Crosscurrents and Confusion, 1877-1880

Ch. 7 The New South

Ch. 8 Good-bye to the Bloody Shirt

Ch. 9 The Roots of Freedmen's Education

Ch. 10 Between Black and White: Puritans in Babylon

Ch. 11 Paternalism and Piety

Ch. 12 Detour or Mainstream? The Curriculum of Missionary Schools

Ch. 13 The Segregation Issue

Ch. 14 Berea College

Ch. 15 The Struggle for Black Control

Ch. 16 The Shattering of Hope

Ch. 17 Women's Rights and Anti-Imperialism

Ch. 18 History and Biology

Ch. 19 Booker T. Washington and the Reaffirmation of Gradualism

Ch. 20 The Rejection of Gradualism and the Founding of the NAACP

Appendix A: Abolitionists on Whom This Book is Based

Appendix B: Southern Negro Colleges and Secondary Schools Established by Northern Mission Societies

A Note on Sources

Index

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Editorial Reviews

"Must surely be assigned an important place in the literature of the history of ideas and of race relations in the United States."

The Times Literary Supplement

The Abolitionist Legacy shows many of the same graces as its predecessor: wide-ranging and careful research, a strong sense of story line, an eye for good quotations, unyielding sympathy for those who devoted their lives to uplifting the freedmen.

Reviews in American History

In addition to discussing the complex blend of egalitarianism and paternalism in the thought of white proponents of black advancement, McPherson offers suggestions of the intricate mixture of racial consciousness, individual ambition, and racial romanticism that continues to fuel modern black separatism.

Political Science Quarterly

These volumes, published in 1975 and 1964, respectively, chronicle the abolitionist movement from before the Civil War to the part it played in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. LJ's reviewer found The Abolitionist Legacy an "ably researched, well-written book" (LJ 12/15/75).

Library Journal

"In addition to discussing the complex blend of egalitarianism and paternalism in the thought of white proponents of black advancement, McPherson offers suggestions of the intricate mixture of racial consciousness, individual ambition, and racial romanticism that continues to fuel modern black separatism."—Political Science Quarterly

"Must surely be assigned an important place in the literature of the history of ideas and of race relations in the United States."—The Times Literary Supplement

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