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Author Herron, Paul E

Title Framing the solid south : the state constitutional conventions of secession, reconstruction, and redemption, 1860-1902 / Paul E. Herron
Published Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Antebellum Southern State Constitutionalism -- Secession, Sovereignty and state constitutional revision -- Framing the Southern Republic -- Presidential requests -- Congressional demands -- Reaction, retrenchment, an resistance
Summary "Beginning in the antebellum period and continuing through Secession, Reconstruction, and after, Southern States went through a period of intense constitution writing and rewriting mostly through a series of constitutional conventions. These conventions wrote constitutions that protected slavery, allowed for Secession, then allowed them to rejoin the union, and finally enshrined the rule of a white elite and the suppression of black rights. In this book, Herron tells the story of these repeated efforts to write constitutions, arguing that the result was the solid south, a place different from the rest of the country, dominated by a white elite, with weak states, and no rights for African Americans. He contends the peculiar character of the South continues today and understanding the politics of these constitutional conventions and the documents they produced is key to understanding Southern history and the south today"--C Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Constitutional conventions -- United States -- States -- History
Constitutional conventions -- Southern States -- History
Constitutional history -- Southern States
Secession -- Southern States -- History
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Constitutional conventions
Constitutional conventions -- U.S. states
Constitutional history
Politics and government
Race relations -- Political aspects
Secession
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125656
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125657
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0700624384
9780700624386