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.

Summary

Describes how each of the eleven Confederate states and five slaveholding border states responded to the legal challenges posed by emancipation and postwar economic hardship, and examines the long-term survival of some Reconstruction-era legal reforms, illuminating the context of the rise of the modern civil rights movement.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0275989720 (alk. paper)
• 9780275989729

LCCN

• ^^2006025249
• 9780275989729

OCLC

70823244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library