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Dilke views on America and the Negro in 19th century notes
The essay surveys postwar American policy toward Reconstruction and black citizenship, arguing for federal protection of freedmen while warning against missteps like literacy-based suffrage. It critiques Southern resistance, endorses enfranchisement, and contrasts Northern and Confederate legacies, with digressions on American nomenclature and social attitudes.
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Dilke
America
South
Confederacy
Liberia
Haiti
North
Mahonri Cahoon
Salt Lake City
Attila Harding
Utah
Michigan University
Erastus Haven
Oramel Oaford
Abram Sanger
Silas Douglas Moses Guon
Zina Pitcher
Alonzo Pitman
de Voleon Wood
Lucius Chapin
Corydon Ford
Lyman Stevens
Bolivar Barnum
Wyllys Ransom
Ozora Stearns
Buel Derby
Michigan
Illinois
Alonso Tibbets
Eliphalet Arnould
Velenus Sherman
Overland Road
Sereno Burt
Montana
Persis Boynton
Chicago