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Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America /
The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? Based on extensive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history--a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199773183 0199773181 1283160250 9781283160254 0190254475 9780190254476 9786613160256 6613160253 9780199831616 0199831610 |