Book contents
- A Right Not a Privilege
- A Right Not a Privilege
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 From Property to White Manhood
- 2 Making Loyalty Paramount
- 3 Disfranchising Traitors
- 4 Enfranchising Loyal Men
- 5 Outside the Pale of Political Recognition
- 6 Removing Disabilities
- 7 Not a White Man’s Government
- 8 Creating an Aristocracy of Sex
- 9 Redemption
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Making Loyalty Paramount
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Book contents
- A Right Not a Privilege
- A Right Not a Privilege
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 From Property to White Manhood
- 2 Making Loyalty Paramount
- 3 Disfranchising Traitors
- 4 Enfranchising Loyal Men
- 5 Outside the Pale of Political Recognition
- 6 Removing Disabilities
- 7 Not a White Man’s Government
- 8 Creating an Aristocracy of Sex
- 9 Redemption
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter is an overview of the suffrage issues raised by the Civil War. The Confederacy experienced significant anti-democratic impulses. Both North and South expanded absentee voting for soldiers. Border South states still in the Union enacted disfranchisement measures to exclude Confederate sympathizers from the ballot. Black men began to demand the vote as a reward for their service in the Union army. Women suspended their campaign for the vote, believing that working for black men’s rights would advance their own rights.
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- A Right Not a PrivilegeThe Suffrage in the Post-Civil War United States, pp. 48 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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