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