1976/09/01 by Charles Vincent · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies #Race, History, and American Society #Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
paper · doi:10.1177/002193477600700104
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At no time in history has any race or people had a monopoly on morality. But to read many traditional historians' accounts of southern Reconstruction, one could easily obtain the impression that whites were the savior of humanity and the ones who redeemed the South of corrupt and incompetent black rule: or at least whites would have, until recently, received unanimous credit as the most outstanding leaders. The primary documents of Reconstruction in Louisiana indicated many interesting examples of a wide range of black legislative interest from civil rights to social welfare, and from corporate interest to benevolent concern (Vincent, 1973: throught). One of the most sought after pieces of legislation was a state blue law for the observance of the Sabaath by Louisiana's black Reconstructionists. Historically, social reform movements in the antebellum South developed very slowly, according to Eaton (1961: