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Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether African Americans participated in the politics of the long nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects.
List of contents
Introduction. Black Politics and U.S. Politics in the Age of Revolutions, Reconstructions, and Emancipations
Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher
Chapter 1. Women's Politics, Antislavery Politics, and Phillis Wheatley's American RevolutionDavid Waldstreicher
Chapter 2. Rethinking White Supremacy: Black Resistance and the Problem of Slaveholder Authority
Padraig Riley
Chapter 3. In the Woodpile: Negro Electors in the First Reconstruction
Van Gosse
Chapter 4. Freedom and the Politics of Migration After the American Revolution
Samantha Seeley
Chapter 5. Black Migration, Black Villages, and Black Emancipation in Antebellum Illinois
M. Scott Heerman
Chapter 6. Practicing Formal Politics Without the Vote: Black New Yorkers in the Aftermath of 1821
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Chapter 7. "Agitation, Tumult, Violence Will Not Cease": Black Politics and the Compromise of 1850
Andrew Diemer
Chapter 8. Black Politics and the "Foul and Infamous Lie" of Dred Scott
Christopher James Bonner
Chapter 9. The "Free Cuba" Campaign, Republican Politics, and Post-Civil War Black Internationalism
James M. Shinn Jr.
Chapter 10. The Southern Division: Freedpeople, Pensions, and Federal State Building in the Post-Confederate South
Dale Kretz
Epilogue. Telling and Retelling: The Diversity of Black Political Practices
Kellie Carter Jackson
Afterword
Laura F. Edwards
About the author
Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College. David Waldstreicher is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
