The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated EditionOriginally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, and their evolution from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican Party. Asserting that it was not the abolitionists who failed to instill principles of equality, but rather the American people who refused to follow their leadership, McPherson raises questions about the obstacles that have long hindered American reform movements. |
Contents
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II Secession and the Coming of War | 29 |
1861 | 52 |
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V The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment | 99 |
Innately Inferior or Equal? | 134 |
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XII The Reelection of Lincoln | 260 |
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1865 | 308 |
XV The Fourteenth Amendment and the Election of 1866 | 341 |
XVI Military Reconstruction and Impeachment | 367 |
18651870 | 386 |
the Fifteenth Amendment | 417 |
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The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and ... James M. McPherson No preview available - 2014 |