The first Reconstruction : black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War / Van Gosse.
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential electoral black politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War--as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in U.S....
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