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

Zusatztext A nuanced analysis...Dudden's reexamination of this crucial moment in American politics is a welcome addition to the historiography of the woman suffrage movement and a significant contribution to the history of movement in politics. Informationen zum Autor Faye E. Dudden is Professor of History at Colgate University. Klappentext 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 because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes! so long allied! come to this? Based on extensive research! Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history--a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure. Zusammenfassung 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, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the onlycause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and political maneuver. Historian Faye Dudden shows that Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, believing they had a fighting chance to win woman suffrage after the Civil War, tried but failed to exploit windows of political opportunity, especially in Kansas.When they became most desperate, they succeeded only in selling out their long-held commitment to black rights and their invaluable friendship and alliance with Frederick Douglass. Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history.

Product details

• Authors: Dudden, Faye E. Dudden, Dudden Faye E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2011
• EAN: 9780199772636
• ISBN: 978-0-19-977263-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: 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