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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164948403321

Autore

Fitzgerald Michael W. <1956->

Titolo

Reconstruction in Alabama : From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South / / Michael W. Fitzgerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baton Rouge : , : Louisiana State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8071-6608-1

0-8071-6607-3

Edizione

[First printing.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

976.1/06

Soggetti

Unionists (United States Civil War) - Alabama

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Alabama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. A mere lapsus: Unionists and conservative dissidents during the Civil War -- The last relicks of barbarism: army, war, and reconstruction -- Presidential Reconstruction: Unionism and the politics of definition -- The premature New South of Governor Robert Patton -- Part II. Black Liberation: freedom and political mobilization -- Implementing Reconstruction: governance and biracial politics -- The difference between whaling a freeman and pounding a slave: terrorism and resistance in the Klan era -- Railroads, race, and Reconstruction: the curious legacy of Governor William H. Smith -- Bipartisan disaster: the advent of Governor Robert Lindsay -- False dawn: the promise of Reconstruction in the early 1870s -- Part III. Beneath the white banner: depression and the overthrow of Reconstruction -- "It only requires a little more figuring": redemption's aftermath.