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1004081
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b758451
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Hume, Richard L.
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Blacks, carpetbaggers, and scalawags : : the constitutional conventions of radical Reconstruction /\ Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xii, 528 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations, maps, portraits
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0807134708
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: 0807148334
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: 9780807134702
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: 9780807148334
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0807133248
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9780807133248
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-508) and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; 1. A TREMENDOUS AND SEARCHING SOCIAL REVOLUTION; 2. DELEGATES AND LEADERS; 3. VIRGINIA AND ARKANSAS Victory from the Jaws of Defeat and Defeat from the Jaws of Victory; 4. ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI Imposed Victory; 5. GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA Governors Brown and Holden, Eminences Grises Right and Left; 6. LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA Anomalous Stereotypes; 7. FLORIDA AND TEXAS Foreshadowing Failure; 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A. Methodological Procedures: Delegate Information and Selection and Analysis of Votes.
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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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African Americans-- Southern States-- Politics and government-- 19th century.
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Constitutional conventions-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
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Constitutional history-- Southern States.
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Racially mixed people-- Southern States-- Politics and government-- 19th century.
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Radicalism-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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African Americans-- Politics and government.
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Constitutional conventions.
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Constitutional history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- General.
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Politics and government.
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Race relations-- Political aspects.
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Radicalism.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Southern States, Politics and government, 1865-1950.
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Southern States, Race relations, Political aspects, History, 19th century.
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Southern States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.97509/034
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E668.H95 2008eb
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| Added Entry
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Gough, Jerry B.,1940-
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