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Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy

First  Edition©2021  Bedford/St. Martin's; K. Stephen Prince

About

Table of Contents

Central Question

Learning Objective

Historical Background

Timeline

PRIMARY SOURCES

Black Delegation to the White House Calls for Civil and Political Rights

Frederick Douglass Appeals to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

Thaddeus Stevens Speaks in Favor of the Reconstruction Act and Black Suffrage

Harper’s Weekly Illustrates African American Suffrage

The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Hiram Revels Makes his First Speech in the U.S. Senate

Elias Hill Describes a Ku Klux Klan Attack

South Carolina’s Wade Hampton Addresses "The Race Problem"

Project Questions

Additional Assignments

Additional Resources for Research

Bedford/St.Martin's

Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin’s is the largest college publisher of textbooks for English composition courses. They publish best-selling textbooks like A Writer’s Reference, The St. Martin’s Guide to College Writing, and Patterns for College Writing.

K. Stephen Prince

K. Stephen Prince (Ph.D, Yale University) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida, where he specializes in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth century United States with an emphasis on the culture, society, and politics of the U.S. South. He is the author of Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915, and is currently at work on a book-length study of Robert Charles and the New Orleans race riot of 1900.