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

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An Example for All of the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy within the era of emancipation and the Civil War. On this panoramic have a look at, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans’ grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of ways black men’s right to vote transformed local affairs, and the way, in brief order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the query of equality to the vanguard of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised have a look at explores how concerns about private and non-private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period’s debate over rights and citizenship.

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