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Reconstructing Democracy - Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War (Paperback)
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Reconstructing Democracy - Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War (Paperback)
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Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and
with few economic resources or little significant social standing,
created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South
after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation,
not only were black men voting but they had elected thousands of
ex-slaves to political offices. Historians have long noted the role
of African American slaves in the fight for their emancipation and
their many efforts to secure their freedom and citizenship, yet
they have given surprisingly little attention to the system of
governance that freedpeople helped to fashion. Justin Behrend
argues that freedpeople created a new democracy in the
Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders
and Confederates with a grassroots democracy.Reconstructing
Democracy tells this story through the experiences of ordinary
people who lived in the Natchez District, a region of the Deep
South where black political mobilization was very successful.
Behrend shows how freedpeople set up a political system rooted in
egalitarian values wherein local communities rather than powerful
individuals held power and ordinary people exercised unprecedented
influence in governance. In so doing, he invites us to reconsider
not only our understanding of Reconstruction but also the nature
and origins of democracy more broadly.
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