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At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina

Name: At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina
Brand: University of South Carolina Press
SKU: 9781570035869
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Contributors:

James Lowell Underwood (Editor), W. Lewis Burke (Editor), Eric Foner (Introduction by)

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United States, African American & Black

Book Topic:

American, State & Local

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

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Release Date:

2005-04-01

ISBN 13:

9781570035869

Weight:

1.01 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

312

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A telling reevaluation of African American roles in government and law during Reconstruction

At Freedom's Door rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild and reform South Carolina after the Civil War. In seven essays, the contributors to the volume explore the role of African Americans in government and law during Reconstruction in the Palmetto State. Bringing into focus a legacy not fully recognized, the contributors collectively demonstrate the legal acumen displayed by prominent African Americans and the impact these individuals had on the enactment of substantial constitutional reforms--many of which, though abandoned after Reconstruction, would be resurrected in the twentieth century.

James Lowell Underwood, in a reexamination of the Constitutional Convention of 1868, recounts the critical role African American delegates played in the drafting of the state's first truly democratic constitution. In a pair of essays, J. Clay Smith and Belinda Gergel offer much new biographical information about Joseph Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state supreme court bench. They discuss Wright's jurisprudence, approach to judicial decision making, role in the Dual Government Controversy of 1876, and coerced resignation from the court. In essays that explore the role of African American attorneys in South Carolina, W. Lewis Burke considers an all-but-forgotten phase in the history of the University of South Carolina Law School--the education and graduation of Black students in the 1870s--and John Oldfield sheds light on a law school administered by and for African Americans in post-Reconstruction South Carolina. Michael Mounter tells the story of Richard T. Greener, the first African American graduate of harvard and the first African American professor at the University of South Carolina. The eminent Reconstruction historian Eric Foner opens and concludes the volume by placing in national perspective the lives of these African Americans and the events in which they participated.

About the Author

W. Lewis Burke is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. He is the coeditor of Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy and the author of many articles on legal history. Burke also lives in Columbia.

At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina

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