Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719001087
Abstract: I offer a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the disenfranchisements of the early Republic to efforts to secure equal voting rights in the… read more here.
Keywords: partisan polarization; suffrage; suffrage 1785; 1785 1868 ... See more keywords
Voting in the Reconstruction Novel: Black Suffrage, Election-Day Violence, and the Regulation of the Vote
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DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajac176
Abstract: How did fiction respond to the expansions of democracy during the Reconstruction period? This article provides a survey of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction novels that include scenes of Black electoral participation. Such scenes of voting are… read more here.
Keywords: violence; voting reconstruction; voting rights; black suffrage ... See more keywords