Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction

by Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133248
• ISBN13: 9780807133248
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"