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Title The failed promise : Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson / Robert S. Levine.
Publisher New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Description xxii, 312 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.
Contents Southern Unionist -- The Mission of the War -- "Abraham Lincoln Dies, the Republic Lives" -- "There Is No Such Thing as Reconstruction" -- A Moses in the White House -- The Black Delegation Visits a Moses of Their People -- The President's Riots -- Shadowing Johnson, Defying the Loyalists -- Sources of Danger to the Republic -- A Job Offer -- The Trials of Impeachment -- "Demented Moses of Tennessee" -- Epilogue: "We Have a Fight on Our Hands".
Summary "When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's most influential Black leader, increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the fate of Reconstruction. Their animosity only grew as Johnson sought to undermine Reconstruction and conciliate leaders of the former Confederate states. Robert S. Levine grippingly recounts the conflicts that led to Johnson's impeachment from the perspective of Douglass and the wider Black community"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 -- Impeachment.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Other title Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
ISBN 9781324004752
1324004754