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"Mind How You Vote, Boys": The Crisis of Economic Voter Intimidation in the Late-Nineteenth Century United States, 1873-1896

Description:

This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...

Keyword:

elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation

Subject:

History, American history, and Political science

Creator:

Cohn-Postar, Gideon

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978