Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North

by Christopher Malone (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $151.66

  Looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This work offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.