The record of murders and outrages : racial violence and the fight over truth at the dawn of Reconstruction /

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"After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by whites against Black men, women, and children. Leaders of the new southern governments and northern Democrats typically denied that the atrocities were happening, or they professed that the levels of violence were nothing more than...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blair, William Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > Records and correspondence.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
1800-1899
Freed persons > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
African Americans > Violence against > Southern States > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
African Americans > Violence against.
Freed persons.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
History of the Americas.
History.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1877.
Southern States.
United States.
Records and correspondence.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Battle for Credibility
  • Black Lives in the Record
  • And the Military Comes
  • The Killing Fields of 1868
  • The Problem of Texas
  • Epilogue. Proving Lynching.

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