Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century and, this book reveals, it had dea…
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Part I.A mere lapsus: Unionists and conservative dissidents during the Civil War -- The last relicks of barbarism: army, war, and reconstruction -- Presidential Reconstruction: Unionism and the politics of definition -- The premature New South of Governor Robert Patton -- Part I…
The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the Fifteenth Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to t…
"Few periods in American history have aroused as much debate as the years immediately after the Civil War, those commonly referred to simply as "Reconstruction." The victorious North had to determine how to treat the vanquished South and how to make a nation whole once again. Th…
