Description: Reconstructing Democracy : Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South After the Civil War, Paperback by Behrend, Justin, ISBN 0820351423, ISBN-13 9780820351421, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK pFormer slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but they had elected thousands of ex-slaves to political offices. Historians have long noted the role of African American slaves in the fight for their emancipation and their many efforts to secure their freedom and citizenship, yet they have given surprisingly little attention to the system of governance that freedpeople helped to fashion. Justin Behrend argues that freedpeople created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a grassroots democracy.brbriReconstructing Democracy/i tells this story through the experiences of ordinary people who lived in the Natchez District, a region of the Deep South where black political mobilization was very successful. Behrend shows how freedpeople set up a political system rooted in egalitarian values wherein local communities rather than powerful individuals held power and ordinary people exercised unprecedented influence in governance. In so doing, he invites us to reconsider not only our understanding of Reconstruction but also the nature and origins of democracy more broadly./p
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Book Title: Reconstructing Democracy : Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep
Subject Area: Civil Service
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Justin Behrend
Publication Name: Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Subject: Social Sciences, Politics
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
