Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early
republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political
history to consider not whether black people participated in the
politics of the nineteenth century but how, when, and with what
lasting effects. Collectively, its authors insist that historians
go beyond questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution
was, or whether Reconstruction failed, and focus, instead, on how
political change initiated by African Americans and their allies
constituted the rule in nineteenth-century American politics, not
occasional and cataclysmic exceptions. The essays in this
groundbreaking collection cover the full range of political
activity by black northerners after the Revolution, from cultural
politics to widespread voting, within a political system shaped by
the rising power of slaveholders. Conceptualizing a new black
politics, contributors observe, requires reorienting American
politics away from black/white and North/South polarities and
toward a new focus on migration and local or state structures.
Other essays focus on the middle decades of the nineteenth century
and demonstrate that free black politics, not merely the politics
of slavery, was a disruptive and consequential force in American
political development. From the perspective of the contributors to
this volume, formal black politics did not begin in 1865, or with
agitation by abolitionists like Frederick Douglass in the 1840s,
but rather in the Revolutionary era's antislavery and citizenship
activism. As these essays show, revolution, emancipation, and
Reconstruction are not separate eras in U.S. history, but rather
linked and ongoing processes that began in the 1770s and continued
through the nineteenth century. Contributors: Christopher James
Bonner, Kellie Carter Jackson, Andrew Diemer, Laura F. Edwards, Van
Gosse, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, M. Scott Heerman, Dale Kretz,
Padraig Riley, Samantha Seeley, James M. Shinn Jr., David
Waldstreicher.
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