Description:
The beginning of the story : Black enfranchisement in the antebellum era -- "The mind of Blacks are not competent to vote" : racial voting restrictions in New York -- "An asylum for the oppressed injured sons of Europe" : disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania -- "Servility is not confined to color" : disenfranchisement and re-enfranchisement in Rhode Island -- "The vaunted superiority of the white race imposes corresponding duties" : Massachusetts and Black enfranchisement, the exception to the rule -- Reconstructing the two reconstructions : race formation in the antebellum north and the nationalization of party politics