The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. 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.
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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. 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.
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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. 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.
Heather Cox Richardson is Associate Professor of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Contents Preface Prologue: The View from Atlanta, 1895 1. The Northern Postwar Vision, 1865–1867 2. The Mixed Blessing of Universal Suffrage, 1867–1870 3. Black Workers and the South Carolina Government, 1871–1875 4. Civil Rights and the Growth of the NationalGovernment, 1870–1883 5. The Black Exodus from the South, 1879–1880 6. The Un-American Negro, 1880–1900 Epilogue: Booker T. Washington Rises Up from Slavery, 1901 Notes Index
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Heather Richardson's The Death of Reconstruction is a work of genuine originality and imagination. Steeped in remarkable research, this is a persuasive account of how economic world views drove Northerners' retreat from Reconstruction; it makes us view Reconstruction from a different angle and helps explain, as well as any book has, the deep significance of individualism in American life in the late nineteenth century.