Between freedom and bondage
Subtitle: race, party, and voting rights in the antebellum North
By: Christopher Malone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780415956963; 9780415956970
Subjects: African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index
Table of contents: title: The beginning of the story : Black enfranchisement in the antebellum era; title: "The mind of Blacks are not competent to vote" : racial voting restrictions in New York; title: "An asylum for the oppressed injured sons of Europe" : disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania; title: "Servility is not confined to color" : disenfranchisement and re-enfranchisement in Rhode Island; title: "The vaunted superiority of the white race imposes corresponding duties" : Massachusetts and Black enfranchisement, the exception to the rule; title: Reconstructing the two reconstructions : race formation in the antebellum north and the nationalization of party politics