Heather Cox Richardson examines such issues as black suffrage, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity.
- ISBN10 0674042697
- ISBN13 9780674042698
- Publish Date 1 July 2009 (first published 28 September 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 330
- Language English