"The Whites Shall Rule the Land or Die": Gender, Race, and Class in North Carolina Reconstruction Politics

"The Whites Shall Rule the Land or Die": Gender, Race, and Class in North Carolina Reconstruction Politics

Joseph A Englehard and Alfred A Price, editors of the Wilmington Daily Journal, joined the campaign of the Conservative Union party, to unite the state's white men against the 1868 Reconstruction constitution, believing that ratification would mean the end of white men's republicanism. Ema...

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Published in:The Journal of southern history Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 499 - 534
Main Author: Zipf, Karin L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Richmond, Va Southern Historical Association 01-08-1999
Subjects:
1865-1898
African Americans
American Civil War
Conservatism
Former slaves
History
Men
Political parties
Politics
Postwar reconstruction
Racism
Republicanism
Sexism
Social classes
Social equality
United States history
United States history, 1865-1901
Voting
Voting rights
War
White people
Whites
North Carolina
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Summary:Joseph A Englehard and Alfred A Price, editors of the Wilmington Daily Journal, joined the campaign of the Conservative Union party, to unite the state's white men against the 1868 Reconstruction constitution, believing that ratification would mean the end of white men's republicanism. Emancipation destroyed slavery republicanism and change the social and political terrain of North Carolina. Conservatives asserted that society prescribed the roles of men and women according to innate differences between the sexes, declaring that white men governed both civil and domestic society.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.2307/2588132