Splendid Failure

Postwar Reconstruction in the American South

By: Michael W. Fitzgerald

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Paperback | 19 June 2008

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Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other governance problems quickly soured idealistic Northerners on the practical consequences of the Radical Republican plan, and set the stage for the explosion that swept Southern Republicans from power and resulted in Northern acquiescence to the bloody repression of voting rights. The failed strategy offers a chastening example to present-day proponents of racial equality.

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A useful introduction to the dramatic and bloody tragedy of Reconstruction.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Military History American Civil War

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
To Civil War: What Slavery Did	p. 3
Resistance, unity, and diversity in the enslaved population
White Southerners and the pro-slavery consensus: the plantation elite and the nonslaveholding majority. Whigs, Democrats, and the struggle over secession
The crisis of up-country society and the emergence of Unionist disaffection
Slavery under the strain of war
National Politics: Andrew Johnson and the Lost Compromise	p. 22
The Northern majority moves toward emancipation
Presidential Reconstruction from Lincoln to Johnson, Black Codes, and Conservative rule
Johnson vs. the Republican Congress: the Northern electorate decides
Black suffrage and Military Reconstruction
Emancipation and Terror in the Plantation South	p. 47
Rebuilding the slave-style plantation-gang labor and tight control
Politicization of the freedpeople and the transition to decentralized tenant farming
Sharecropping and the emergence of Klan-style terrorism
Establishing the Reconstruction Governments	p. 72
Congressional Reconstruction, goals, and mechanics
Institutionalizing change at the constitutional conventions
The interracial Republican coalition
Conservative backlash
Grant's election and the confirmation of the Reconstruction order
Railroads, Development, and Reconstructing Society	p. 96
The search for native white support
Whiggish moderates and economic development: railroads as Southern panacea
Issuing bonds and financial complications
The corruption issue, civil rights, and the national context
Race, Faction, and Grant	p. 119
The Grant administration and moderate whites
Radical reaction and black empowerment
The struggle for leadership and federal patronage, faction, and class in the black community
The Liberal Republican revolt, the Klan issue, and Grant's reelection
Gender, Race, and Civil Society in the Reconstruction South	p. 143
Freedwomen, domestic work, and family life
Local government, society, and public education in the Reconstruction South
Taxes, debt, law enforcement, and the legal structure of equality
The Politics of Slaughter: Depression and Reaction	p. 165
Consolidation of African-American political influence
The panic of 1873
Resurgence of racist violence: the White Leagues
Collapse of the Northern Republican majority and abandonment of civil rights protection
The Democratic sweep of 1874, North and South, and its consequences
Endgame in South Carolina: 1877 and After	p. 194
Governor Chamberlain and the reform initiative
The limits of Republican retrenchment and bipartisan anti-corruption politics
Terrorism, Rutherford B. Hayes, and the end of Reconstruction
Toward Jim Crow and the civil rights movement to come
A Note on Sources	p. 213
Index	p. 219
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