The record of murders and outrages : racial violence and the fight over truth at the dawn of Reconstruction / William A. Blair.

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"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 cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Civil War America (Series)
Main Author: Blair, William Alan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > Records and correspondence.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Freed persons > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
African Americans > Violence against > Southern States > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
African Americans > Violence against.
Freed persons.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Records and correspondence.
Sources.
Genre:
Records and correspondence.
Sources.
History.
Physical Description:173 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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