[PDF.71bo] An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.

An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.

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 | #549241 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2012-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.90 x6.10l,.80 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Washington D.C. in the Reconstruction Era|By Robin Friedman|Among the many studies of Reconstruction, surprisingly few focus on its history in Washington, D.C. I was drawn to this new book, "An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C." (2010) because it offered a combination of national history with the local history of Washingto| |An example of the type of excellent scholarship that bridges the putative divide between elite decisions and popular struggles, while getting to the heart of thorny questions about equal rights during a tumultuous time our nation's history.--Journal of Afri

An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the qu...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.   |  Kate Masur. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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