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This 3 page paper discusses Stampp's book about the Reconstruction period that followed the U.S. Civil War. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Reconstruction. Discussion Stampp apparently wrote his book in response to authors like William A. Dunning and others, who labeled the Reconstruction with such phrases as "the Tragic Era," "the Dreadful
Decade" and "the Age of Hate," among others (Stampp, 1965, p. 3). Dunning and others pointed to the Reconstruction as the most shameful period in American history; author Claude Bowers,
whom Stampp says was more widely read that any other author of his time, painted a picture of Reconstruction as unmitigated evil. Bowerss book, The Tragic Era, described Reconstruction as
a time of "almost unrelieved sordidness in public and private life; whole regiments of villains march through his pages: the corrupt politicians who dominated the administration of Ulysses S. Grant;
the crafty, scheming northern carpetbaggers ...; the degraded and depraved southern scalawags ...; and the ignorant, barbarous, sensual Negroes who threatened to Africanize the South and destroy its Caucasian civilization"
(Stampp, 1965, p. 4). It is Stampps contention that Bowers and other authors are mistaken in their opinions of Reconstruction and that it was in fact a success. Stampp used
"a trove of secondary sources" to "systematically refute" the writings of Dunning and others (Kenneth M. Stampp, 2006). He has been criticized "for not employing more primary material," but his
analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (Kenneth M.
Stampp, 2006). (The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizens the right to due process; the Fifteenth granted people the right to vote regardless of race.) Stampp is clearly biased in favor
of the Northern cause and against both slavery itself, and the attempts to portray slavery as somehow "benign and paternalistic, even promotive of Southern racial harmony" (Kenneth M. Stampp, 2006).
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