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100 1 $aMasur, Kate.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010011466
245 13 $aAn example for all the land :$bemancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C. /$cKate Masur.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $ax, 364 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEverywhere Is Freedom and Everybody Free: The Capital Transformed -- $g2.$tThey Feel It Is Their Right: Freedpeople, Reformers, and the Demands of Citizenship -- $g3.$tSomeone Must Lead the Way: Creating and Claiming Civil Rights -- $g4.$tFirst among Them Is the Right of Suffrage: The Vote and Its Consequences -- $g5.$tMake Haste Slowly: The Limits of Equality -- $g6.$tTo Save the Common Property and Respectability of All: The Rise and Fall of the Territorial Government.
520 1 $a""An Example for all the Land, clearly argued and deeply researched, represents a significant breakthrough in the crowded field of Reconstruction scholarship. Showing how Washington, D.C. became a laboratory for political experimentation, Masur reveals important new facets of the process of emancipation, the fight for racial justice, and the reconstruction of democracy for all Americans."-Laura F. Edwards, author of The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" ""Kate Masur takes us to a distinctive place where the local and national struggles of Reconstruction coincided, and where the promises and limits of change-and the new meanings of equality-foreshadowed political dynamics on the many stages of late nineteenth-century America. An Example for All the Land is, for us, an example of freshly conceived and very thoughtful historical writing."-Steven Han, University of Pennsylvania" ""This is a model study, integrating social and political history, on an important but underexamined topic. Masur skillfully explores the implications of race and development politics in Washington, D.C., drawing a clear connection with the broader fate of Reconstruction and the public perception of urban corruption. I'm astonished that no one has tackled these issues before, and I'm pleased that Masur has done so this well."-Michael W. Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College" ""Until now, Washington D.C., has been considered anomalous and marginal in the history of reconstruction. But Kate Masur's study of the turbulent, and ultimately tragic, struggle to define and expand equal rights in the District will change that perception dramatically. This is an important and intriguing contribution to the scholarship on emancipation and Reconstruction."-Michael Perman, author of Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South" "In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battle-ground in the American struggle over equality." "After slavery's demise, the question of racial equality produced a multifaceted debate about who should have which rights and privileges, and in which places. Masur shows that black Washingtonians demanded public respect for their organizations and equal access to streetcars, public schools, the vote, and municipal employment. Congressional Republicans, in turn, passed local legislation that made the capital the nation's vanguard of racial equality, drawing the attention of woman suffragists hoping for similar experiments in women's rights. But a conservative coalition soon mobilized and, in the name of reform and modernization, sought to undermine African Americans' newfound influence in local affairs. In a stunning reversal, Congress then abolished local self-government, making the capital an exemplar of disfranchisement amid a national debate about the dangers of democracy." "Combining political, social, and legal history, Masur reveals Washington as a laboratory for social policy at a pivotal moment in American history and brings the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSuffrage$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y19th century.
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