ISBN:
9781139091176
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110700232X
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9781139092579
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9781283316262
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9781107002326
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 343 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction
DDC:
305.8009753
Keywords:
Freedmen History 19th century
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Washington (D.C.) Race relations 19th century
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History
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Washington (D.C.) Politics and government 19th century
Abstract:
Provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War, and into the lives of the newly emancipated African Americans
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword ; 1 Introduction; A "Western Palmyra"; A Southern City; A Model City; The Capital and the Union; 2 Wartime Washington; Introduction; The Question of Loyalty; The Capital of the Union; "An Asylum for Free Negroes"; Contraband Labor; The "Contraband System"; Freedmens Aid; Conclusion; 3 The Freedmens Bureau in the District of Columbia; Introduction; The Work of the Bureau; Sanitation and Housing; The Problem of Relief; "A Vast Labor Bureau"; The Bureau as an Urban Welfare Agency
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4 Congressional Reconstruction in the District of ColumbiaAn "Experimental Garden for the Propagation of Political Hybrids"; "The First Practical Triumph of Freedom"; Eradicating the Traces of Slavery; "A Pillar of Fire to Illumine the Footsteps of Millions": Black Suffrage; The Inauguration of Biracial Education; The Troublesome Question of Mixed Schools; A Partial Reconstruction; 5 Reconstructing the City Government; Introduction; The Mayoralty of Richard Wallach: Washingtons Ancien Régime; The Rise of the Republican Party; The Election of Sayles J. Bowen; Improvements
Description / Table of Contents:
The Reform RepublicansConclusion; 6 Race, Radicalism, and Reconstruction; Introduction; Black Voting; The Style of Grassroots Republican Politics; Taking It to the Streets; "The Great Want Is Work"; "To Become a People"; 7 A City and a State; "A Badly Governed City"; Congress as a City Council; The Charities of the District; The District Board of Health; The "Great Ditch": The Washington Canal; Washington and the B. & O. Monopoly; A City and a State; 8 From Biracial Democracy to Direct Rule; "Worthy of the Nation"; Reform of the Municipal Government; The Origins of the Territory
Description / Table of Contents:
The Meteoric Career of the Board of Public WorksThe Imposition of Direct Rule; Reasons for the End of Representative Government; 9 Reconstruction in the Nations Capital; "The Capital of the Whole Nation"; Reconstruction in the District of Columbia; "The Paradise of Free Negroes"?; Congress and the District; Index
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