Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction

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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments........................................................................ xi 1. A TREMENDOUS AND SEARCHING SOCIAL REVOLUTION......... 1 2. DELEGATES AND LEADERS ......................................................11 Tables .................................................................................... 24 3. VIRGINIA AND ARKANSAS Victory from the Jaws of Defeat and Defeat from the Jaws of Victory............... 35 Tables .................................................................................... 57 Vote Listings............................................................................. 66 4. ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI Imposed Victory .......................................................................... 74 Tables .................................................................................... 97 Vote Listings............................................................................ 106 5. GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA Governors Brown and Holden, Eminences Grises Right and Left .................. 114 Tables ................................................................................... 140 Vote Listings............................................................................ 149 6. LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA Anomalous Stereotypes.................................................................. 158 Tables ................................................................................... 185 Vote Listings............................................................................ 194 7. FLORIDA AND TEXAS Foreshadowing Failure.................................................................. 200 Tables ................................................................................... 229 Vote Listings............................................................................ 239 viii 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS............................................. 248 Tables ................................................................................... 271 Appendix A. Methodological Procedures: Delegate Information and Selection and Analysis of Votes .................... 277 Appendix B. Delegate Republican Support Scores by State.................... 282 Appendix C. Delegate Biographical Data.......................................... 308 Notes...................................................................................... 407 Bibliography............................................................................. 457 Index...................................................................................... 509 Contents ix ILLUSTRATIONS property charts 1. Percentage of total delegate wealth by quintiles .....................................17 2. Average and median property values by delegate group........................... 18 3. Number of delegates by group within each quintile ............................... 18 maps Virginia......................................................................................... 38 Arkansas ....................................................................................... 39 Alabama........................................................................................ 78 Mississippi..................................................................................... 79 Georgia........................................................................................ 119 North Carolina............................................................................... 119 Louisiana...................................................................................... 164 South Carolina............................................................................... 164 Florida......................................................................................... 205 Texas........................................................................................... 206 scatterplots Virginia......................................................................................... 51 Arkansas ....................................................................................... 51 Alabama........................................................................................ 90 Mississippi..................................................................................... 90 Georgia........................................................................................ 132 North Carolina............................................................................... 132 Louisiana...................................................................................... 181 Florida......................................................................................... 221 Texas........................................................................................... 222 x photographs and portraits Following p. 275 John C. Underwood, president of the Virginia convention Thomas M. Bowen, president of the Arkansas convention Conservative delegates to the Virginia convention George Teamoh, African American delegate to the Virginia convention Delegates to the Alabama convention Beroth B. Eggleston, president of the Mississippi convention Calvin J. Cowles, president of the North Carolina convention Rufus Bullock, Republican leader in the Georgia convention James G. Taliaferro, president of the Louisiana convention Albert J. Mackey, president of the South Carolina convention Daniel Richards, president of the radical Florida convention Horatio Jenkins Jr., president of the moderate Florida convention Edmund J. Davis, president of the Texas convention George Ruby, African American delegate to the Texas convention Illustrations ...