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RECONSTUCTION. Debates and Proceedings of the Convention which Assembled at Little Rock, January 7th, 1868. 895 pages. Large, thick crown 8vo, later quarter buckram over the original leather covered boards; contrasting red and black labels; lacks front free endpapers. Little Rock: J. G. Price, 1868
In compliance with the provisions of the Reconstruction Acts of March, 1867 ten assemblies, often branded as "black and tan" conventions by Southern white opponents of Reconstruction, met throughout the vanquished South and framed new state constitutions between November 1867 and February 1869. These gatherings provided an opportunity for whites and blacks to hammer out the means to deal with the results of the sudden emancipation of nearly four million people, many of them homeless and jobless. The Arkansas Convention is the best documented of all such gatherings, and the present volume with its full transcription of the proceedings is the best prime resource of that body. There were three main factions at the conventions: southern whites, southern blacks and "outside" whites. The latter and the southern blacks seem to have gotten the most done, certainly on the political side; but clashed violently on social issues like co-habitation, and intermarriage. Many of the "outside" whites side in favor of the death penalty for such transgressions. The final constitution outlawed discrimination based on race and made it possible for adult black males to vote.rare, the last copy at auction, in 1948, was defective, lacking the last 82 pages.
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