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Canada and the United States

Jane Dailey. Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.

Jane Dailey uses the story of Virginia's Readjuster movement, a biracial political alliance, as the vehicle to analyze the malleable thinking about race in the late nineteenth-century South. The Readjusters took their name in 1878 from their desire to repudiate at least part of the state debt, incurred largely in antebellum years to finance railroads, canals, and other public works. Conservative Democrats ("Funders"), on the other hand, wanted to take money from the education budget in order to pay down the state debt. To oppose the Funders, Readjusters pulled together a coalition that gained control of the Virginia General Assembly in 1879. Readjusters had the support of small white landholders of the western uplands and black Republicans from the Tidewater counties, both groups who were determined to keep taxes low and free public education readily available. Between 1879 and 1883, the Readjusters went on to claim the governor's office, both of the state's U.S. Senate positions, and the majority of its seats in Congress. The coalition failed in 1883 when white discomfort about black power combined with election fraud and violence to secure a Democratic victory. . . .

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