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Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction
Benjamin Ginsberg
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Description for Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction
Hardback. Revisiting the story of the South's "most perfect scalawag," Ginsberg contributes to a broader understanding of the essential role southern Jews played during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and an officer in the Confederate army. Moses then reversed course. As Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, he shocked and outraged his white constituents by championing racial equality and socializing freely with former slaves. Friends denounced him, his family disowned him, and enemies ultimately drove him from his home state. In Moses of South Carolina, Benjamin Ginsberg rescues this protean figure and his fascinating story from obscurity. Though Moses ... Read more
Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and an officer in the Confederate army. Moses then reversed course. As Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, he shocked and outraged his white constituents by championing racial equality and socializing freely with former slaves. Friends denounced him, his family disowned him, and enemies ultimately drove him from his home state. In Moses of South Carolina, Benjamin Ginsberg rescues this protean figure and his fascinating story from obscurity. Though Moses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894640
SKU
V9780801894640
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About Benjamin Ginsberg
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University, coauthor of Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, and coeditor of Making Government Manageable: Executive Organization and Management in the Twenty-First Century, both also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction
Moses of South Carolina is a welcome and long overdue reappraisal of the firebrand governor... There is much to recommend Ginsberg's work. The author makes the Byzantine politics of the period understandable. His discussion of Moses's marginality, the politics of corruption, the economy, and land reform in the state is compelling, intriguing, and audacious.
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