Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this?

Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history--a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure.


Author: Faye E. Dudden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199376438

About the Author

Faye E. Dudden is Professor of History at Colgate University. Her previous books include Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America and Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870, which won the George Freedley Memorial Prize.

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