A massacre in Memphis : the race riot that shook the nation one year after the Civil War
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Author
Published
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780809067978 (hardback), 0809067978 (hardback)
Status
Springfield Main Library - Adult
305.8960768 ASH
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305.8960768 ASH
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Published
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780809067978 (hardback), 0809067978 (hardback)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.
Description
"An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks--and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War and its aftermath. A momentous national event, the riot is also remarkable for being "one of the best-documented episodes of the American nineteenth century." Yet Ash is the first to mine the sources available to full effect. Bringing postwar Memphis to vivid life, he takes us among newly arrived Yankees, former Rebels, boisterous Irish immigrants, and striving freed people, and shows how Americans of the period worked, prayed, expressed their politics, and imagined the future. And how they died: Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense narration of the riot has the immediacy of the best journalism. Told with nuance, grace, and a quiet moral passion, A Massacre in Memphis is Civil War-era history like no other"--,Provided by publisher.
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"An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history"--,Provided by publisher.
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