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Democracy reborn : the Fourteenth Amendment and the fight for equal rights in post-Civil War America

Describes the fierce battle that erupted in post-Civil War America over the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the implications of the revolutionary addition to the U.S. Constitution, and the colorful cast of characters involved--including Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony
Print Book, English, 2006
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Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006