Redemption

An arresting piece of popular history Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans turned vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant s support for the emergent structures of black political power Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Free Download [ Redemption ] By [ Nicholas Lemann ] – kino-fada.fr Reading this book is like taking bitter medicine It s good for you, but not pleasant I had the same feeling at the beginning of this book as when I began Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee which was, This isn t not going to end well The book is about the post Civil War reconstruction era This is a dark chapter of American history, but not for the reasons I was taught in school I don t remember much of the specific facts that I was taught, but I remember picking up the impression that scalawag Reading this book is like taking bitter medicine It s good for you, but not pleasant I had the same feeling at the beginning of this book as when I began Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee which was, This isn t not going to end well The book is about the post Civil War reconstruction era This is a dark chapter of American history, but not for the reasons I was taught in school I don t remember much of the specific facts that I was taught, but I remember picking up the impression that scalawags and carpetbaggers were bad people This book provides an alternative view that if being a bad pe...The standard history of the Civil War is that America fought a bloody war to abolish slavery and the South lost.As Nicholas Lemann makes so clear in this compelling book, it was hardly that simple Ten years after the end of the war, with Ulysses Grant in the Oval Office, the fate of political and social freedom for southern blacks was still very much undecided, and in this sad story, Lemann shows how the battle for full rights was essentially lost for decades because of the events of this perio The standard history of the Civil War is that America fought a bloody war to abolish slavery and the South lost.As Nicholas Lemann makes so clear in this compelling book, it was hardly that simple Ten years after the end of the war, with Ulysses Grant in the Oval Office, the fate of political and social freedom for southern blacks was still very much undecided, and in this sad story, Lemann shows how the battle for full rights was essentially lost for decades because of the events of this period.He focuses particularly on Mississippi, which like many other states in the Reconstr...After the Civil War the Constitution was amended to establish equal political and civil rights for former slaves, and for the first few year blacks had some real political power For example in Mississippi 64 of 152 state legislators were black in 1873 Mississippi voters had elected a man sympathetic to Reconstruction as governor Adelbert Ames, a former Union General recently arrived from Maine However, many whites didn t like the new arrangements, and with the Union Army largely withdrawn an After the Civil War the Constitution was amended to establish equal political and civil rights for former slaves, and for the first few year blacks had some real political power For example in Mississippi 64 of 152 state legislators were black in 1873 Mississippi voters had elected a man sympathetic to Reconstruction as governor Adelbert Ames, a former Union General recently arrived from Maine However, many whites didn t like the new arrangements, and with the Union Army largely withdrawn and disbanded, the disgruntled whites took matters into th...I was drawn to this primarily because it s about my great great grandfather Adelbert Ames and his tenure as governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction he had been the subject of a short, unfavorable mention in Profiles in Courage, which the family tried to correct without success, and Lemann, I think, was trying to do what Kennedy wouldn t Kennedy wrote favorably about L.Q.C Lamar, a white Democratic Mississippi politician of the 1870s and 80s who was instrumental in ending Reconstructio I was drawn to this primarily because it s about my great great grandfather Adelbert Ames and his tenure as governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction he had been the subject of a short, unfavorable mention in Profiles in Courage, which the family tried to correct without success, and Lemann, I think, was trying to do what Kennedy wouldn t Kennedy wrote favorab...It is very important for us to be aware of this period of history First part tells the story of the Redemption as the story of General Senator Governor Ames It is a story that needs to be told but seems to drag a bit Nice units on historiography of the era.In order to place Nicholas Lemann s fine book Redemption the Last Battle of the Civil War in context, a bit of background is necessary With the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the United States faced the daunting tasks of reintegrating the defeated South into the Union and providing for the rights of the African Americans freed from slavery The period from 1865 1876 is generally described as the Reconstruction era, and it includes, broadly, three separate In order to place Nicholas Lemann s fine book Redemption the Last Battle of the Civil War in context, a bit of background is necessary With the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the United States faced the daunting tasks of reintegrating the defeated South into the Union and providing for the rights of the African Americans freed from slavery The period from 1865 1876 is generally described as the Reconstruction era, and it includes,...In Redemption , Nicholas Lemann explores the violent, terroristic tactics southern whites used to reestablish white supremacy in the conquered southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War This book was difficult to read not because it was flawed in any way, but because when the story it tells isn t profoundly sad, it is teeth grindingly upsetting It is a story of unambiguous good battling with self indulgent, leering evil, and losing The story is made all thesickeningly poignant In Redemption , Nicholas Lemann explores the violent, terroristic tactics southern whites used to reestablish white supremacy in the conquered southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War This book was difficult to read not because it was flawed in any way, but because when the story it tells isn t profoundly sad, it is teeth grindingly upsetting It is a story of unambiguous good battling with self indulgent, leering evil, and losing The story is made all thesickeningly poignant by the fact that the story s outcome.subjugated, disenfranchised former slaves compelled through violence for almost a...The continued effort by many to bring the Confederate banner down from government buildings and grounds, especially in my home state of South Carolina, as well as strident assertions by bigots and white supremacists that their history is being forgotten, made reading this book all theintense and angering than it might have been at another time While this country struggles against terrorism throughout the world, it is ...I m fascinated by the changes that occurred during Reconstruction The government supported support of newly freed slaves and their political movements Just as fascinating is the Republican decision to abandon them in favor of votes for Rutherford B Hayes This book has interesting material a...In the days after the Civil War there was a concerted effort on the part of the white establishment to reinstate the supremacy of the whate race It was done with violence, with trickery, with blatant racism The results lasted up to the mid 20th century, making the Civil Rights movement necessary.

• English
• 01 July 2017
Nicholas Lemann
• Hardcover
• 272 pages
• 0374248559
• Nicholas Lemann
• Redemption