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Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 Hardcover - 2017

by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt


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In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates' decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution.

Pratt argues the constitution produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of many other southern states, it held up against attack for over seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically well into the twentieth century.

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  • Title Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
  • Author Dorothy Overstreet Pratt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 294
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2017-11-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781496815460 / 1496815467
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Mississippi, Mississippi - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017026732
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.762

About the author

Dorothy Overstreet Pratt is retired from the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. She taught previously at the University of Notre Dame, where she also served as assistant dean in the College of Arts and Letters.
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