“A Great Religious Octopus”: Church and State at Virginia's Constitutional Convention, 1901–1902
A hundred years ago Virginia drafted a new state constitution designed to disfranchise African American voters. That objective was transparent from the outset of the convention. As John Goode, the presiding officer, assumed his seat, he called black suffrage “a great crime against civilization and C...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2003
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Church history
Year: 2003, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 333-360 |
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