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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes...
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Introduction - 1. "Nothing but Divisions Among Our People" - 2. "Rich Man's War" - 3. "Fighting Each Other Harder Than We Ever Fought the Enemy" - 4. "Yes, We All Shall Be Free" - 5. "Now the Wolf Has Come" - 6. "Defeated... by the People at Home" - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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University of North Carolina Press
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c1988
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Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand...
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