At freedom's door : African American founding fathers and lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina / edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Jr. ; with an introduction by Eric Foner.

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, wo...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Other Authors: Underwood, James L. Burke, William Lewis.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2000.
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