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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

By Charles Lane

Book information

Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Year
2009
ISBN
0805089225, 9780805089226
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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561 kB (574209 bytes)
Edition
1 Reprint
Pages
352\0
Time added
2017-08-29 19:34:06
Murder & Mayhem;True Crime;Biographies & Memoirs;A

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"Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."―Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse. Seeking justice for the slain, one brave U.S. attorney, James Beckwith, risked his life and career to investigate and punish the perpetrators―but they all went free. What followed was a series of courtroom dramas that culminated at the Supreme Court, where the justices' verdict compromised the victories of the Civil War and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent whites for generations. The Day Freedom Died is a riveting historical saga that captures a gallery of characters from presidents to townspeople, and re-creates the bloody days of Reconstruction, when the often brutal struggle for equality moved from the battlefield into communities across the nation.

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