The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879

A Study in Reconstruction Politics

By Jack P. Maddex Jr.

348 pp., 6 x 9

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9718-8
    Published: April 2011
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-4810-1
    Published: July 2018
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    Published: July 2018

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The Conservatives won control of the Virginia state government in 1869 and goverened for ten years on a program of integrating their homeland into the structure of the contemporary United States by adopting Yankee" institutions and ideas: industrial capitalism, American nationalsim, Gilded-Age political practices, and a system of race relations that made the Afro-American a free man and officially a citizen but not an equal."

Originally published in 1970.

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