Responding to fears of African American and female political agency, this book shows how Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as “conservatives” and repurposed Jacksonian Democracy as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial and gender boundaries by democratically withholding rights.


Format Inbunden Omfång 264 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag University of Virginia Press Utgivningsdatum 2019-05-30 ISBN 9780813942506