Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-508) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Acknowledgments; 1. A TREMENDOUS AND SEARCHING SOCIAL REVOLUTION; 2. DELEGATES AND LEADERS; 3. VIRGINIA AND ARKANSAS Victory from the Jaws of Defeat and Defeat from the Jaws of Victory; 4. ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI Imposed Victory; 5. GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA Governors Brown and Holden, Eminences Grises Right and Left; 6. LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA Anomalous Stereotypes; 7. FLORIDA AND TEXAS Foreshadowing Failure; 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A. Methodological Procedures: Delegate Information and Selection and Analysis of Votes.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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" by their detractors, these assemblies wrote constitutions and submitted them to Congress and to the voters in their respectiv.
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Blacks, carpetbaggers, and scalawags.
International Standard Book Number
0807133248
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans-- Southern States-- Politics and government-- 19th century.