August Reckoning : Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama Paperback / softback
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Part of the Library of Alabama Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions - like those in other southern states - were dominated by whites.
Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured.
Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race.
He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882.
That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites.
Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:207 pages
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780817351199
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:207 pages
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780817351199
