Research Catalog

Title

In the wake of slavery : Civil War, Civil Rights, and the reconstruction of Southern law / Joseph A. Ranney.

Author

Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 199 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Southern States > Race relations
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Suffrage > Southern States > History
• Women's rights > Southern States > History
• African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History
• Constitutional history > Southern States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the legal history of reconstruction -- Traveling the political dial : political and cultural forces that shaped reconstruction-era lawmakers -- Law and the wartime South -- The great wreck of property : coming to grips with emancipation -- Cleaning up after the Confederacy : the new federalism and allocation of losses of war -- The constitutional legacy of reconstruction -- A republic of paupers : shaping the individual's role in the postwar economy -- The South confronts corporations -- Reconstruction and womens rights -- Southern law during the Bourbon era (1877-1890) -- The impassable chasm : Southern law during the straight-out era (1890-1915) -- The legal legacy of reconstruction.

Call Number

IBR 06-7088

ISBN

0275989720 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006025249
• 9780275989729

OCLC

• 70823244
• vendorOCM70823244

Author

Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-

Title

In the wake of slavery : Civil War, Civil Rights, and the reconstruction of Southern law / Joseph A. Ranney.

Imprint

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Other Standard Identifier

9780275989729

Research Call Number

IBR 06-7088