Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860--1890

by Michael W. Fitzgerald

Book Overview

Scholars of Reconstruction have generally described Republican party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the Radical agenda evoked unified black support. As Michael W. Fitzgerald shows in the first major study of black popular politics in the urban South in the years surrounding the Civil War, that depiction oversimplifies a contentious and often overlooked intraracial dynamic. Republican political power, he argues, heightened divisions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128376
• ISBN13: 9780807128374
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"