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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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Lemann, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780374530693
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.90
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Year: 2007

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

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