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Bloody Shirt, The: Terror after Appomattox
Bloody Shirt The Terror after Appomattox Author:Stephen Budiansky Stephen Budiansky sheds light on an all-too-easily misunderstood part of American history in The Bloody Shirt. Between 1867 and 1877, the period known as Reconstruction, more than three thousand African Americans and their white Republican allies were killed in terrorist violence in the South. Budiansky argues that the violence was concealed, de... more »nied, or mitigated by a white community united in their outrage at the government’s attempt to enforce the equality of former slaves. He presents an intimate and concise portrait of the heroes and villains of this era, concentrating on five men who maintained their idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred.« less