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The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox Cover Image Book

The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky.

Budiansky, Stephen. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670018406
  • ISBN: 9780670018406
  • Physical Description: 322 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2008]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"I thought the South wanted it to end there" -- "The war still exists" -- "The half has not been told you" -- "Plain honest convictions of a soldier" -- "Vote the Negro down or knock him down" -- "The passion-stirring event at Hamburg" -- "Greed, the father of slaves, was too much for us".

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African Americans > Crimes against > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Racism > United States > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects.
Violence > United States > History > 19th century.
Racism.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
United States > History > 1865-1898.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.

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