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Black Legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction

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When firstly published, Charles Vincent’s scholarship shed new light on the achievements of black legislators in the state legislatures in post-Civil War Louisiana-a state where black people were a majority in the state population but a minority in the legislature. 

Now up to date with a new preface, this volume endures as the most important work that illustrates the strength of minorities in state government all over Reconstruction. It specializes in the achievements of the black representatives and senators in the Louisiana legislature who, through tireless fighting, were in a position to push forward many progressive reforms, such as universal public education, and social programs for the less fortunate. 

“Charles Vincent’s book is a classic in the field of African American history-one of the vital ground-breaking works that helped pave the way for the scholarship that would follow.”
 -John C. Rodrigue, writer of Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 

“Charles Vincent is a widely respected historian whose book remains the most important revisionist take a look at the ways that blacks were not simply pawns or sufferers all over Reconstruction, but shaped the terms of emancipation and the agendas of governments in the post-Civil War South.” 
-Scott P. Marler, University of Memphis

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