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Canada and the United States

Richard Paul Fuke. Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland. (Reconstructing America, number 2.) New York: Fordham University Press. 1999. Pp. xxv, 307. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.

This exceptional monograph completes a generation of research and contributes significantly to the debate over whether Reconstruction "failed" (Richard Paul Fuke thinks it did) and, if so, why? Based on a 1965 master's thesis and a thoroughly updated 1973 University of Chicago dissertation, as well as seven of the author's articles (1971–1997), there are few aspects of black life and white racial thinking not covered in this heavily documented study, supported by an impressive variety of primary sources. 1

Freedom came to Maryland's slaves on November 1, 1864. Conservative planters and radical Republicans had quite different views of the situation. Blacks had a third perspective. Maryland was a loyal state, with a preponderance of Union sentiment, even in the east, yet its Unionists, most of whom were or became Democrats after the war, did not differ much from ex-Confederates in their attitudes toward blacks. Radicals helped to split the Republican Party and quickly lost power, never to regain it. . . .

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