Fighting Chance - The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage Black Suffrage in Reconstruction

Discusses the fracture between the women's suffrage movement and black suffrage movement during the Reconstruction era when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1. The Age is Ripe for the Woman Question


• 2. Black Rights, Woman's Rights, and Civil War


• 3. The "Negro's Hour"


• 4. The Struggle for Equal Rights


• 5. Kansas


• 6. Revolutionary Journalism and Political Opportunism


• 7. The Fight Over the Fifteenth Amendment


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Faye E. Dudden is Professor of History at Colgate University. Her previous books include Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America and Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870, which won the George Freedley Memorial Prize.

Summary

The 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,

Additional text

Rich in archival material, set against a backdrop of lively debate concerning the meanings of citizenship, rights, and freedoms during Reconstruction, with a notable cast of characters, Duddenâs work is a particularly valuable contribution to the history of the struggle for equal rights in nineteenth-century America and that of womenâs rights more generally.

Product details

• Authors: Faye E Dudden, Faye E. Dudden, Faye E. (Professor of History and Presiden Dudden, Faye E. (Professor of History and Presidential Scholar Dudden, Dudden Faye E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9780199376438
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937643-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Civics and citizenship