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Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was...
24 sty 2008 · His latest book is The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, which chronicles the struggles of five courageous men in the post-Civil War South as they battled a rising tide of terrorist violence aimed at usurping the newly won rights of the freedmen.
17 lis 2019 · 855.3M. 322 pages : 22 cm. A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave. A Plume book.
4.5 97 ratings. See all formats and editions. From 1866 to 1876, more than 3,000 free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South.
30 gru 2008 · The Bloody Shirt sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history.
This book, "The Bloody Shirt", brings elements of those conflicts closer to home, and describes in vivid detail the terror imposed upon the freed slaves in the South after the War Between the States / Civil War here in the United States. Gripping descriptions of terror and fear of life for the freed blacks at the time, and for years after.
1 wrz 2008 · The protagonists are mostly white men. The bloody shirt belonged to Allen Huggins, a Mississippi carpetbagger who was whipped by the Ku Klux Klan. Allegedly, Benjamin F. Butler waved Huggins's bloodstained nightshirt on the floor of Congress to demonstrate the violence against southern Republicans.
