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The Life and Death of Gus Reed : a Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state's courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney-and brother of Abraham Lincoln's former law partner-a crime for which he was convicted and sent. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780821444948 0821444948 |