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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Lemann, Nicholas

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesRegional: South

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0374530696
ISBN13: 9780374530693
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 21 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

An arresting piece of popular history. --Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review

Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.

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