{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-equality-9780691163901","title":"The Struggle for Equality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new preface by the author--Cover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Warren F. Kuehl Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations \"Must surely be assigned an important place in the literature of the history of ideas and of race relations in the United States.\"--The Times Literary Supplement \"The Abolitionist Legacy shows many of the same graces as its predecessor: wide-ranging and careful research, a strong sense of story line, an eye for good quotations, unyielding sympathy for those who devoted their lives to uplifting the freedmen.\"--Reviews in American History \"In addition to discussing the complex blend of egalitarianism and paternalism in the thought of white proponents of black advancement, McPherson offers suggestions of the intricate mixture of racial consciousness, individual ambition, and racial romanticism that continues to fuel modern black separatism.\"--Political Science Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Princeton Classics Edition ix  Preface xiii  Key to Abbreviations xvii  Introduction 3  I The Election of 1860 9  II Secession and the Coming of War 29  III The Emancipation Issue: 1861 52  IVEmancipation and Public Opinion: 1861-1862 75  V The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment 99  VI The Negro: Innately Inferior or Equal? 134  VII Freedmen's Education: 1861-1865 154  VIII The Creation of the Freedmen's Bureau 178  IX Men of Color, to Arms! 192  X The Quest for Equal Rights in the North 221  XI The Ballot and Land for the Freedmen: 1861-1865 238  XII The Reelection of Lincoln 260  XIII Schism in the Ranks: 1864-1865 287  XIV Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction: 1865 308  XV The Fourteenth Amendment and the Election of 1866 341  XVI Military Reconstruction and Impeachment 367  XVII Education and Confiscation 1865-1870 386  XVIII The Climax of the Crusade: the Fifteenth Amendment 417  Bibliographical Essay 433  Index 451","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403811561815,"sku":"9780691163901","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691163901.jpg?v=1730484616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-struggle-for-equality-9780691163901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}