Dudden, Faye E. (Professor of History and Presidential Scholar, Professor of History and Presidential Scholar, Colgate University)

Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Dudden, Faye E. (Professor of History and Presidential Scholar, Professor of History and Presidential Scholar, Colgate University)

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money andpolitical maneuver.