Bøger af Dale Baum

For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. Azeline ultimately inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In this volume, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story.

Tracks the leadership and electoral basis of politics in Texas during the Civil War from secession through Reconstruction. The text explores the double collapse of Texas Unionism - first as a bulwark against secession and then as a foundation upon which to build a truly biracial society.

Baum combines sophisticated statistical analysis with traditional historical methods to analyse the internal dynamics of Massachusetts politics and the structure of the Republican party, especially the ""Bird Club"", a dominant radical faction that flavoured Bay State politics for more than a decade.