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1 online resource |
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Foundations of change -- Wartime Reconstruction -- Ruination -- "Joshua" Johnson -- Carpetbagged -- Railroaded -- Corrupted -- Southern reparations -- Sharecropped -- Redeemed -- Divorced -- Racial adjustment -- Protracted consequences -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Monetary supply theory during Reconstruction |
| Summary |
Examines Federal wartime legislation in order to broaden our understanding of Reconstruction, revealing how it led to African Americans being used as political pawns, first to ensure continued Republican rule, and finally to be blamed for the South's hardships in order to draw poor whites away from Populism and back to the aristocratic white Democratic banner. Civil War laws transformed America's banking system, built a railroad web, and launched the Gilded Age in the North and West, but, Leigh contends, these laws also created a dubious alliance between banks and government, sparked corruption, purposely depressed Southern industry, trapped Southern farmers--both black and white--in endless annual peonage cycles, and failed to provide lands for freedmen. While Reconstruction was intended to return the South to the Union, it could not be effective with laws that abetted Southern poverty, disfranchised many whites, fostered racial animosity to a point where lynchings and Jim Crow laws erupted, and lined the pockets of wealthy or politically well-connected business leaders outside of the region. --From publisher description |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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Race relations -- Political aspects
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
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Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125649
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United States -- History -- 1865-1898. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140283
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140445
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Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125657
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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Southern States
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United States
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781594166198 |
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1594166196 |
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