Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
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- Synopsis
- In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyoneOCOs lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists who would bring an end to Reconstruction in the late 1870s, this crucial concept informed the ways in which many peopleOCoboth black and white, northerner and southernerOCoimagined the transformation of the American South. "Beyond Redemption" explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Here, Carole Emberton traces the competing meanings that redemption held for Americans as they tried to come to terms with the war and the changing social landscape. While some imagined redemption from the brutality of slavery and war, othersOColike the infamous Ku Klux KlanOCosought political and racial redemption for their losses through violence. "Beyond Redemption" merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226024301
- Publisher:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/29/15
- Copyrighted By:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.