This Is Not Dixie : Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 /
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M.S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post Civil War Kansas. Campney's ca...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2015.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "Light is bursting upon the world!"
- "Negroes are the favorites of the government"
- "Kansas has an ample supply of darkies"
- "A day more dreadful than any that we have yet experienced"
- "Some finely tuned spring-release trap"
- "The life of no colored man is safe"
- "Sowing the seed of hatred and prejudice"
- "Peace at home is the most essential thing".