Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy
by
Marek D. Steedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of African...