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Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era - by Laura E. Free
Published by Cornell University Press, 2015
“In the crisp and lucid Suffrage Reconstructed, Laura E. Free delivers on her promise to shed light on how whiteness and manhood became synonymous with citizenship, why the word “male” was introduced into the constitution with the 14th Amendment.” Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia