Laura Free: 1 book
Suffrage Reconstructed
Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment’s authors made this decision....
