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Edmund L. Drago - Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction - 9781557285416 - V9781557285416
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Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction

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This post-revisionist study examines the motives and the concerns of the ex-slaves in South Carolina who supported a movement that eventually led to white supremacy.

Although most freedmen throughout the states of the former Confederacy were Republicans loyal to the party of the Federal government that had emancipated them, they were factions of African-American voters who aligned themselves with local white Democratic leaders. one such group of black conservatives joined the “Red Shirts,” white paramilitary clubs that attempted to restore antebellum values in electing former Confederate general Wade Hampton governor of South Carolina in 1876.

Drago’s fine analysis recovers and explains this ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press Arkansas
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557285416
SKU
V9781557285416
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

Reviews for Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction
“The problem examined by this book is an important one as the findings help to shatter the view that the South’s African-American population represented a monolithic entity.” —Carl Moneyhon, author of The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas “This is a significant work . . . beautifully written, deeply researched, and rationally organized.” —Willard B. ... Read more

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