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The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Science

ISBN10: 142143234X
ISBN13: 9781421432342
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This study covers the immediate background, passage, and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Gillette contends that the Fifteenth Amendment was intended to give voting rights to African Americans in the north, sidelining those in the south. African American suffrage, in other words, had the pragmatic effect of bringing power to the Republicans of the north. In short, the Fifteenth Amendment was not a radical document but rather was pushed by Republican moderates in an effort to consolidate their power.

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