Malone, Christopher, Jr. (Pace University, New York, USA)

Between Freedom and Bondage

Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the 4 states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This book offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956970
• ISBN-10: 0415956978
• Artikelnr.: 22051785

Autorenporträt

Christopher Malone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pace University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Beginning of the Story: Black Enfranchisement in the
Antebellum Era 2. 'The Mind of Blacks are Not Competent to Vote': Racial
Voting Restrictions in New York 3. 'An Asylum for the Oppressed Injured
Sons of Europe': Disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania 4. 'Servility is Not
Confined to Color': Disenfranchisement and Re-Enfranchisement in Rhode
Island 5. 'The Vaunted Superiority of the White Race Imposes Corresponding
Duties': Massachusetts and Black Enfranchisement - the "Exception" to the
Rule 6. Epilogue: Reconstructing the Two Reconstructions: Race Formation in
the Antebellum North and the Nationalization of Party Politics