The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse

The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture

Van Gosse

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nonfiction history politics
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It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential back electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them esc...

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