Bricks Without Straw : A Novel PDF
by Tourgee Albion W. Tourgee, Tourgee Albion W. Tourgee
Edited by Karcher Carolyn L. Karcher
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Bricks Without Straw is Tourgee's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery. This edition of Bricks Without Straw is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher's introduction, which sets the novel in historical context and provides an overview of Albion W. Tourgee's career, a chronology of the significant events of both the Reconstruction era and Tourgee's life, and explanatory notes identifying actual events fictionalized in the novel.
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- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780822392347
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822392347