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Introduction: Albion Tourg?e and Color-Blind Citizenship
Part I - The Color-Blind Crusade
1: Judge Tourg?e and the Radical Civil War
Part II - The Radical Advance
2: The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohio's Western
Reserve
3: Citizen-Soldier: Manhood and the meaning of Liberty
4: A Radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South
5: The Unfinished Revolution
Part III - The Counterrevolution
6: The Politics of Remembering Reconstruction
7: Radical Individualism in the Gilded Age
8: Beginning the Civil Rights Movement
9: The Rejection of Color-Blind Citizenship: Plessy v. Ferguson
10: The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Mark Elliott is Associate Professor of History at Wagner College.
"In focusing on this largely forgotten activist and artist of
Victorian America and his struggles to bring the United States into
closer proximity to its ever-elusive ideals, Elliott undertook a
task that was more daunting, for his subject pursued wildly
different careers as a politician, a lawyer, and a novelist in
pursuit of his goals. The author impressively succeeds in
integrating these divergent strands into a coherent and
illuminating whole."--Michael
Thomas Smith, Reviews in American History
"An excellent biography, by far the best scholarly treatment of it
important subject."--Mark S. Weiner, American Historical Review
"No one has completed a more thorough, penetrating study of
Tourg'ee and his multiple legacies than Mark Elliott."--Jane
Dailey, Civil War Book Review
"Elliott's masterful biography...defies easy capsulization...It
tells a story of a remarkable and talented man who dedicated much
of his life to a noble, yet often lonely, struggle...And it places
Tourgee in the context of the momentous events that shaped his life
and ideas...[T]his extraordinary biography ends by leaving it to
others to judge the meaning of Tourgee's life in our own times.
There is little doubt that it can still tell us a great deal about
the
human condition."--Raleigh Daily News and Observer
"Mark Elliott...has synthesized a wealth of material and crafted a
superb study.... Elliot writes with gusto and is provocative in his
analysis. Color-Blind Justice is certain to become an invaluable
source on Tourg'ee and on race relations in the United States
during the second half of the 19th century."--Richmond Times
Dispatch
"A seminal but nearly forgotten figure in the American Civil Rights
movement receives his due in this richly detailed
biography...Elliott goes a long way toward restoring Albion
Tourg'ee's name to a prominent place on the list of American civil
rights heroes."--Publishers Weekly
"Through deep research, great sensitivity to the racial and social
contexts of the late nineteenth century, and some eloquent writing,
Elliott shows us a Tourg'ee who truly was a pioneer of the
tradition of antiracism in its early years. The work is also an
excellent on-the-ground biography of a carpetbaggers experience in
Reconstruction North Carolina. Tourg'ee was a major literary,
legal, and political figure and this book finally may bring his
story to a
larger readership. As a first book by a young scholar, it is
impressive for its mature writing and creative research."--Avery O.
Craven Award citation
"Elliott's Color-Blind Justice is a fascinating study of a man and
his principles against the rapidly changing background of the
nineteenth century's second half."--Martin Hardeman, H-Net
Reviews
"A wonderful biography."--The Journal of Law and History Review
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