The Record Of Murders And Outrages

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663463

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The Record of Murders and Outrages by William A. Blair Pdf

After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the readmitted states compile reports of "murders and outrages" to catalog the extent of violence, to prove that the reports of a peaceful South were wrong, and to argue in Congress for the necessity of martial law. What ensued was one of the most fascinating and least understood fights of the Reconstruction era—a political and analytical fight over information and its validity, with implications that dealt in life and death. Here William A. Blair takes the full measure of the bureau's attempt to document and deploy hard information about the reality of the violence that Black communities endured in the wake of Emancipation. Blair uses the accounts of far-flung Freedmen's Bureau agents to ask questions about the early days of Reconstruction, which are surprisingly resonant with the present day: How do you prove something happened in a highly partisan atmosphere where the credibility of information is constantly challenged? And what form should that information take to be considered as fact?

Author : William Alan Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1469663473

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The Record of Murders and Outrages by William Alan Blair Pdf

"After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by whites against Black men, women, and children. Leaders of the new southern governments and northern Democrats typically denied that the atrocities were happening, or they professed that the levels of violence were nothing more than typical criminal behavior. But as occupying Federal troops grew increasingly aware of and even targeted by violent assaults, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the states compile reports of 'murders and outrages' to catalog the extent of violence. The Records Relating to Murders and Outrage were assembled to prove that the reports of a peaceful South were wrong. The Freedmen's Bureau papers are one of the most utilized sources for the Reconstruction era, yet the Record of Murders and Outrages has rarely been explored in depth. In this book, William A. Blair takes the full measure of the Bureau's attempt to document and deploy hard information about the reality of the violence that Black communities endured in the wake of Emancipation. A former journalist, Blair is highly attuned to the ways this history reflects on ongoing and contemporary struggles over how trustworthy data is gathered, packaged, shared, and utilized in policymaking and daily life"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Crime
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094437753

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Parnellism and Crime: Further evidence as to murders and outrages by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Alan Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781469614052

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With Malice Toward Some by William Alan Blair Pdf

With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era

Author : Kidada E. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635576641

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I Saw Death Coming by Kidada E. Williams Pdf

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction "Powerful and deeply moving."--Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History's Stone Book Award From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South, and what it cost. The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and beyond. For too long, their lived experiences have been sidelined, impoverishing our understanding of the obstacles post-Civil War Black families faced, their inspiring determination to survive, and the physical and emotional scars they bore because of it. In I Saw Death Coming, Kidada E. Williams offers a breakthrough account of the much-debated Reconstruction period, transporting readers into the daily existence of formerly enslaved people building hope-filled new lives. Drawing on overlooked sources and bold new readings of the archives, Williams offers a revelatory and, in some cases, minute-by-minute record of nighttime raids and Ku Klux Klan strikes. And she deploys cutting-edge scholarship on trauma to consider how the effects of these attacks would linger for decades--indeed, generations--to come. For readers of Carol Anderson, Tiya Miles, and Clint Smith, I Saw Death Coming is an indelible and essential book that speaks to some of the most pressing questions of our times.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UGA:32108028845520

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Black Studies by United States. National Archives and Records Administration Pdf

Author : Manisha Sinha
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631498459

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha Pdf

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha’s startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote—and which Sinha calls the "last Reconstruction amendment." Within this grand frame, Sinha narrates the rise and fall of what she calls the "Second American Republic." The Reconstruction of the South, a process driven by the alliance between the formerly enslaved at the grassroots and Radical Republicans in Congress, is central to her story, but only part of it. As she demonstrates, the US Army’s conquest of Indigenous nations in the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women’s suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. The main concern of Reconstruction was the plight of the formerly enslaved, but its fall affected other groups as well: women, workers, immigrants, and Native Americans. From the election of black legislators across the South in the late 1860s to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the colonial war in the Philippines in the 1890s, Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom. A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.

Author : Drew A. Swanson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469674728

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A Man of Bad Reputation by Drew A. Swanson Pdf

Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina, Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation. Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window into the struggle to control the future of the South.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11350729

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Congressional Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Patrick Daly
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368634

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The War After the War by John Patrick Daly Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494261

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0393075702

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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder by Vincent Bugliosi Pdf

"Provocative and entertaining…A powerful and damning diatribe on Simpson’s acquittal." —People Here is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, goes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. He lays out the mountains of evidence; rebuts the defense; offers a thrilling summation; condemns the monumental blunders of the judge, the "Dream Team," and the media; and exposes, for the first time anywhere, the shocking incompetence of the prosecution.

Author : Jerry Mitchell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451645149

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Race Against Time by Jerry Mitchell Pdf

“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed.” —John Grisham, author of The Guardians On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. Mitchell reveals how he unearthed secret documents, found long-lost suspects and witnesses, building up evidence strong enough to take on the Klan. He takes us into every harrowing scene along the way, as when Mitchell goes into the lion’s den, meeting one-on-one with the very murderers he is seeking to catch. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder. Race Against Time is an astonishing, courageous story capturing a historic race for justice, as the past is uncovered, clue by clue, and long-ignored evils are brought into the light. This is a landmark book and essential reading for all Americans.

Author : Stephen V. Ash
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860137

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When the Yankees Came by Stephen V. Ash Pdf

Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern postwar mentality. When the Yankees Came is the first comprehensive study of the occupied South, bringing to light a wealth of new information about the southern home front. Among the intriguing topics Ash explores are guerrilla warfare and other forms of civilian resistance; the evolution of Union occupation policy from leniency to repression; the impact of occupation on families, churches, and local government; and conflicts between southern aristocrats and poor whites. In analyzing these topics, Ash examines events from the perspective not only of southerners but also of the northern invaders, and he shows how the experiences of southerners differed according to their distance from a garrisoned town.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : UOM:39015013492965

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Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal by Anonim Pdf