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D771.262/43 版次： |
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D771.262 版次： |
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著者:
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Masur, Kate. |
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Until justice be done : [ America's first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction /] / , |
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版次:
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1st ed. |
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出版地： New York : 出版社： W. W. Norton & Company, 出版日期： [2021] |
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载体形态:
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xxi, 456 p., 12 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (black and white) ; 25 cm. |
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内容提要:
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"A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But claiming the equal-rights promises of the Declaration and the Constitution, a biracial movement arose to fight these racist state laws. Kate Masur's magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Its advocates battled in state legislatures, Congress, and the courts, and through petitioning, party politics and elections. They visited slave states to challenge local laws that imprisoned free blacks and sold them into slavery. Despite immovable white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, their vision became increasingly mainstream. After the Civil War, their arguments shaped the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, the pillars of our second founding"-- |
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主题词:
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African Americans Civil rights 19th century. |
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主题词:
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Civil rights movements History 19th century. United States |
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African Americans Politics and government 19th century. |
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主题词:
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African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. 19th century. |
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D771.262/43 |