The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.

The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.

First edition.

9780393652574 (hardcover)
0393652572 (hardcover)

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]

English

xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

KF4541 .F68 2019

342.73

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. -- adapted from jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.

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