August Reckoning

Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5119-9
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Reihe: Library of Alabama Classics

During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions - like those in other southern states - were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, William Warren

Ward, Robert David

Über Autor(innen)

William Warren Rogers is Emeritus Professor of History at Florida State University and author of The One-Gallused Rebellion: Agrarianism in Alabama. Robert David Ward is Emeritus Professor of History at Georgia Southern University and coauthor (with Rogers) of Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy.