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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Main Author: Blair, William Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > Records and correspondence.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
Freed persons.
African Americans > Violence against.
Affranchis > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
African Americans > Violence against > Southern States > Sources.
Freed persons > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1877.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Sources.
Records and correspondence.
History.
Electronic books.
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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