Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Paperback

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Paperback

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Paperback

by Nicholas Lemann
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by Nicholas Lemann (Author)

"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.

Author Biography

Nicholas Lemann, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is author of The Big Test (FSG, 1999) and the prizewinning The Promised Land. He lives with his family in Pelham, New York.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
ISBN9780374530693
Author Nicholas Lemann
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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