Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America

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Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America

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the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America

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Faye E. Dudden

Creator

• Dudden, Faye E

Subject

• African Americans -- Suffrage
• African Americans -- Suffrage | History -- 19th century
• Femmes -- Suffrage -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• History
• Noirs américains -- Suffrage | Histoire -- 19e siècle
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• 1800-1899
• United States
• Women -- Suffrage
• Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Women's rights
• Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• Discusses the falling-out between women's and African-American suffrage advocates during the Reconstruction era, examining the political culture in the United States during the nineteenth century, and describing how local Republicans sought to defeat both causes by setting the groups against each other
• 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 only cause, 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. -- from http://www.booktopia.com.au (Sep. 30, 2013)

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non fiction

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