Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy / David Zucchino.

"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the Sout...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zucchino, David (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2020]
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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Physical Description:xxii, 426 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Book one: days of hope
  • Cake and wine
  • Good will of the white people
  • Lying out
  • Marching to the happy land
  • Ye men of unmixed blood
  • The avenger cometh
  • Destiny of the negro
  • A yaller dog
  • Book two: reckoning
  • The negro problem
  • The incubus
  • I say lynch
  • A vile slander
  • An excellent race
  • A dark scheme
  • The nation's mission
  • Degenerate sons of the white race
  • The great white man's rally and basket picnic
  • White-capping
  • Buckshot at close range
  • A drunkard and a gambler
  • Choke the Cape Fear with carcasses
  • The shepherds will have nowhere to flee
  • A pitiful condition
  • Retribution in history
  • The forbearance of all white men
  • Book three: line of fire
  • What have we done?
  • Situation serious
  • Strictly according to law
  • Marching from death
  • Not the sort of man we want here
  • Justice is satisfied, vengeance is cruel
  • Persons unknown
  • Better get a gun
  • The meanest animals
  • Old scores
  • The grandfather clause
  • Leave it to the whites
  • I cannot live in North Carolina and be treated like a man
  • Epilogue