Jerry B Gough: 1 book
Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags
The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials),...
