Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction AmericaThe advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, and personal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and political maneuver. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
1 The Age Is Ripe for the Woman Question | 13 |
2 Black Rights Womens Rights and Civil War | 39 |
3 The Negros Hour | 61 |
4 The Struggle for Equal Rights | 88 |
5 Kansas | 108 |
6 Revolutionary Journalism and Political Opportunism | 133 |
7 The Fight over the Fifteenth Amendment | 161 |
Conclusion | 189 |
Abbreviations | 199 |
Notes | 201 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America |
| Author | Faye E. Dudden |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0199772630, 9780199772636 |
| Length | 287 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections |
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