Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900

Brian Kelly

doi:10.2307/j.ctvx072ww.15

Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900

Brian Kelly

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Reflecting on the dramatic changes that had transpired over the previous quarter century, the prominent black North Carolina educator Charles N. Hunter wrote in 1902 that he felt “abundantly vindicated” for having counseled compromise and moderation among black South Carolinians caught in the vortex of the struggle over Reconstruction. His efforts to “influence his own race and party” during a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1874 had met with boisterous hostility from the former slaves comprising the grassroots of the Republican Party. At a time when their hold on power seemed increasingly tenuous, freedmen rejected Hunter’s appeals for conciliation...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction south
Editors	Bruce E. Baker, Brian Kelly
Place of Publication	Florida
Publisher	University Press of Florida
Chapter	10
Pages	199-220
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9780813048376
ISBN (Print)	9780813044774, 9780813060972
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx072ww.15
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2013

Publication series

Name	New Perspectives on the History of the South
Publisher	University Press of Florida

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1 Active

R1765HIS: After slavery: Race, labour and politics in the post-emancipation Carolinas
Kelly, B. (PI)
01/08/2005 → …
Project: Research

Transforming the History Classroom: Engaging Secondary-Level Educators in New Research on US Slave Emancipation
Brian Kelly (Participant)
Impact: Cultural Impact, Societial Impact

1 Participation in conference
1 Oral presentation

Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-emancipation South (US)
Brian Kelly (Organiser)
2009 → 13 Mar 2010
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
A Pandora's Box of Racial Disunity: Black Workers, Black Elites and the 'Labor Question' in the Deep South, 1895-1920
Brian Kelly (Presenter)
11 Nov 2000
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

2 Citations
3 Article
1 Book
1 Other chapter contribution
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

From the slaves' jubilee to white ‘redemption’: Black working-class life in Charleston, 1861-1880
Kelly, B., 01 Jul 2024, (Unpublished) Black urban history at the crossroads: race and place in the American city. Harris, L. M., Lang, C., Williams, R. & Trotter, J. W. (eds.). University of Pittsburgh Press, 43 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Slave self-activity and the bourgeois revolution in the United States: jubilee and the boundaries of black freedom
Kelly, B., 01 Dec 2019, In: Historical Materialism. 27, 3, p. 31-76 43 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2 Citations (Scopus)

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After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction south
Baker, B. E. & Kelly, B., 10 Jan 2013, Florida: University Press of Florida. 278 p. (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
8 Citations (Scopus)

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Kelly, B. (2013). Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900. In B. E. Baker, & B. Kelly (Eds.), After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction south (pp. 199-220). (New Perspectives on the History of the South). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx072ww.15

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After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction south. ed. / Bruce E. Baker; Brian Kelly. Florida: University Press of Florida, 2013. p. 199-220 (New Perspectives on the History of the South).

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Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900

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Projects

R1765HIS: After slavery: Race, labour and politics in the post-emancipation Carolinas

Impacts

Transforming the History Classroom: Engaging Secondary-Level Educators in New Research on US Slave Emancipation

Activities

Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-emancipation South (US)

A Pandora's Box of Racial Disunity: Black Workers, Black Elites and the 'Labor Question' in the Deep South, 1895-1920

Research output

From the slaves' jubilee to white ‘redemption’: Black working-class life in Charleston, 1861-1880

Slave self-activity and the bourgeois revolution in the United States: jubilee and the boundaries of black freedom

After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction south

Cite this