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03857aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2675A3E4E17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220601010025 008 200422s2021 ncuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020018437 020 $a 1469660105 020 $a 9781469660103 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d TOH $d IHT $d YDX $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.18 $b .G67 2021 082 00 $a 973/.0496073 $2 23 100 1 $a Gosse, Van, $e author. 245 14 $a The first Reconstruction : $b Black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War / $c Van Gosse. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 745 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Our Appeal for a Republican Birthright: The Ideology of Black Republicanism before the Civil War -- PART I. Caste versus Citizenship in Pennsylvania -- Citizens for Protection: The Shadow Politics of Greater Philadelphia, 1780-1842 -- A Large Body of Negro Votes Have Controlled the Late Election: Black Politics in Pennsylvania, 1790-1838 -- Coda: The Pennsylvania Default -- PART II. The New England Redoubt -- All the Black Men Vote for Mr. Otis: Nonracial Politics in the Yankee Republic, 1778-1830 -- The Colored Men of Portland Have Always Enjoyed All Their Rights: The Politics of Respect -- The Very Sebastopol of Niggerdom: Measuring Black Power in New Bedford -- We Are True Whigs: Reconstruction in Rhode Island -- Coda: The New England Impasse -- PART III. The New York Battleground -- Negroes Have Votes as Good as Yours or Mine: Coming to Grips in New York, 1777-1821 -- We Think for Ourselves: Making the Battleground, 1822-1846 -- Consult the Genius of Expediency: Approaching Power, 1847-1860 -- Coda: Losing and Winning in the Empire State -- PART IV. A Salient on the West -- We Do Not Care How Black He Is: Ohio's Black Republicans -- Coda: Ohio, Flanked -- Conclusion: Going to War -- Appendix: Black Leaders and Their Electorates. 520 $a "It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential electoral black politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War--as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in U.S. electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Politics and government $y 18th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Politics and government $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $y To 1863. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 650 7 $a African Americans $x Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799659 648 7 $a To 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214015836.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20220601010749.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2675A3E4E17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search