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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
30 sty 2008 · By William Grimes. Jan. 30, 2008. In April 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, putting an end to four years of savage internecine conflict and settling the issue of slavery...
