Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags : The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction /
After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate offici...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials), and a small contingent of "carpetbaggers," or outside whites, sent delegates to ten constitutional conventions. Derogatorily labeled "black and tan" by their detractors, these assemblies wrote constitutions and submitted them to Congress and to the voters in their respectiv. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (552 pages): illustrations, maps, portraits |
ISBN: | 9780807134702 |