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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Paperback

by Nicholas Lemann
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas LemannPublish date:2007-08-21Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530693ISBN-10:374530696UPC:9780374530693Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, State & Local, AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCJAZXPJ3M

"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530693ISBN-10:374530696UPC:9780374530693Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, State & Local, AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCJAZXPJ3M

Nicholas Lemann, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is author of The Big Test (FSG, 1999) and the prizewinning The Promised Land. He lives with his family in Pelham, New York.


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