An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.
Published on 4. October 2010
376 pages
978-0-8078-9932-8 (ISBN)
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An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men’s right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period’s debate over rights and citizenship.
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An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C.
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Kate Masur
An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.
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10/2010
The University of North Carolina Press
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Kate Masur is associate professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Everywhere Is Freedom and Everybody Free: The Capital Transformed
- 2. They Feel It Is Their Right: Freedpeople, Reformers, and the Demands of Citizenship
- 3. Someone Must Lead the Way: Creating and Claiming Civil Rights
- 4. First among Them Is the Right of Suffrage: The Vote and Its Consequences
- 5. Make Haste Slowly: The Limits of Equality
- 6. To Save the Common Property and Respectability of All: The Rise and Fall of the Territorial Government
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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