This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw the intent and the results of that policy as revolutionary. Violence therefore became a counterrevolutionary instrument, placing the South in a pattern familiar to students of world revolution.
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"Compelling and comprehensive . . . Shows Reconstruction to have been bloodier and deadlier than many would like to concede."--Library Journal
"An imaginative, well-written book . . . Correctly identifies conservative white resistance to Reconstruction as a counterrevolutionary movement willing to use any means necessary to eliminate Republican conrol of state and local government."--American Historical Review
"Rable has done a prodigious amount of digging in the sources. . . . A useful guide to the grimmer side of Reconstruction history."--Journal of American History
"Brings to us the simple and terrible reminder that there was no peace for blacks and their white supporters in Dixie . . . A well-written monograph that clarifies both the successes and failures of Reconstruction."--Journal of Southern History
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George C. Rable is Professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. His books include Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! and The Confederate Republic.
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Appomattox closed one violent door and opened up another.,
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This review is from: But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Until I read Rable`s book concerning the time after the war, I had no idea of the racial violence that existed in our nation. The book demonstrates that no matter how hard the north tried to legislate racial harmony, it was doomed to failure. The book also points to the future and leads us to see that our present social/racial situation is the fruit of that period. The war may have brought the states back into the union but North and South could not abide one another still..so they fight on, not on a battle field but in a political arena. This books serves as a "Part II". The war being Part I.
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