ISBN:
9780812252323
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 312 Seiten
Series Statement:
Early American studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gosse, Van, 1957 - Revolutions and reconstructions
DDC:
973/.0496073009034
Keywords:
African Americans Politics and government 19th century
;
African Americans History To 1863
;
African Americans History 1863-1877
;
United States Politics and government 1783-1865
;
United States Politics and government 1865-1900
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Politische Beteiligung
;
Geschichte 1770-1900
Abstract:
Introduction : Black politics and U.S. politics in the age of revolutions, reconstructions, and emancipations / Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher -- Chapter 1. Women's politics, antislavery politics, and Phillis Wheatley's American revolution / David Waldstreicher -- Chapter 2. Rethinking white supremacy : black resistance and the problem of slaveholder authority / Padraig Riley -- Chapter 3. In the woodpile : Negro electors in the first reconstruction / Van Gosse -- Chapter 4. Freedom and the politics of migration after the American Revolution / Samantha Seeley -- Chapter 5. Black migration, black villages, and black emancipation in antebellum Illinois / M. Scott Heerman -- Chapter 6. Practicing formal politics without the vote : black New Yorkers in the aftermath of 1821 / Sarah L. H. Gronningsater -- Chapter 7. "Agitation, tumult, violence will not cease" : black politics and the Compromise of 1850 / Andrew Diemer -- Chapter 8. Black politics and the "foul and infamous lie" of Dred Scott / Christopher James Bonner -- Chapter 9. The "Free Cuba" campaign, Republican politics, and post-Civil War black internationalism / James M. Shinn Jr. -- Chapter 10. The Southern division : freedpeople, pensions, and federal state building in the post-Confederate South / Dale Kretz -- Epilogue : Telling and retelling : the diversity of black political practices / Kellie Carter Jackson -- Afterword / Laura F. Edwards.
Abstract:
"This volume gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American life to consider not whether African Americans participated in the politics of the early, ante-, and postbellum republic, but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Together, the essays advance several important revisions with the potential to transform our understandings of black and U.S. political history in the period between the Revolutionary and Reconstruction eras. These revisions should also lead historians to consider anew the classic questions regarding how revolutionary the Revolution was; whether and how Reconstruction failed; and how conflicts shaped by African Americans and their allies might be considered the rule in American politics, not occasional and cataclysmic exceptions. They also suggest that black politics needs to be analyzed simultaneously as a politics of racial resistance intruding upon the political-electoral system and as the politics of biracial coalitions inside that system, rather than as one or the other. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Revolution, in other words, are not solely events or even periods in U.S. history, but rather also interrelated processes that began at the beginning and continued through the nineteenth century"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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