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This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--

A study of post-Civil War Texas, following the rise and functioning of the Republican party until 1874. It focuses on Republican leaders, constituents, ideology, policies and relations with the national party in an attempt to uncover the basis of the Southern Republican movement.

In 1874, Texas more closely resembled the Texas of 1861 than anyone might have predicted at war's end. Reconstruction had remade little. Carl H. Moneyhon reconsiders the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

Reveals Edmund J Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. This title presents an account of this man who determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state's political elite.

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This groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like ...

In 1874, Texas more closely resembled the Texas of 1861 than anyone might have predicted at war's end. Reconstruction had remade little. Carl H. Moneyhon reconsiders the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.