The Failed Promise Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of And...
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The Failed Promise Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S Levine
epub | 8.13 MB | English | Isbn: 1324004754 | Author: Robert S. Levine | Year: 2021
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The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's most influential Black leader, increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the fate of Reconstruction. Their animosity only grew as Johnson sought to undermine Reconstruction and conciliate leaders of the former Confederate states. Robert S. Levine grippingly recounts the conflicts that led to Johnson's impeachment from the...
Category:Practical Politics, Reconstruction History of the U.S., Civil War History of the U.S.
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