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- Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
summary
Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares, originally published in 1985, was the first book to make an in-depth examination of the cadre of African American lawmakers in Texas after the Civil War. Those few books that addressed the subject at all treated black legislators en masse and offered little or nothing about their individual histories. They tended to present isolated events of the violence and political deterrents inflicted upon black voters but said very little about how these obstacles affected black lawmakers.
Author Merline Pitre has departed from this traditional method and relied upon the untapped original materials found on these black lawmakers. This third edition features a new preface and extended, updated appendixes, ensuring that this study will remain useful to political scientists, sociologists, and historians of Texas political history, Afro-American history, and revisionists of Reconstruction.
Author Merline Pitre has departed from this traditional method and relied upon the untapped original materials found on these black lawmakers. This third edition features a new preface and extended, updated appendixes, ensuring that this study will remain useful to political scientists, sociologists, and historians of Texas political history, Afro-American history, and revisionists of Reconstruction.
Table of Contents
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- About the Revised Edition
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xviii
- 2. The Reconstruction Legislature
- pp. 18-36
- 3. Blacks at the Crossroad 1872-1875
- pp. 37-54
- 5. A Thorn in the Side
- pp. 91-107
- 6. Miscalculation or Manipulation
- pp. 108-126
- 7. Fusion or Fission
- pp. 127-140
- Part Three: The Danger: Methods of Removal
- pp. 141-142
- 8. Rejection, Reduction, Retrenchment
- pp. 143-166
- 9. Matthew Gaines: The Militant
- pp. 169-187
- 10. George T. Ruby: The Party Loyalist
- pp. 188-197
- 11. Richard Allen: The Opportunist
- pp. 198-202
- 12. Robert Lloyd Smith: The Accommodationist
- pp. 203-213
- Postscript
- pp. 225-230
- Bibliography
- pp. 290-299
Additional Information
ISBN
9781623494834
Related ISBN(s)
9781623494827
MARC Record
OCLC
957312510
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2016-08-27
Language
English
Open Access
No