Preserving the White Man's Republic
In Preserving the White Man’s Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War.
Responding to fears of African American and female political agency, Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as "c...
In Preserving the White Man’s Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War.
Responding to fears of African American and female political agency, Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as "c...
