Isbn: 9780817351199 - august reckoning: jack turner and racism in post-civil war alabama (library of alabama classics) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 195 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Zustand: New. During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions were dominated by whites. This is the story of former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner who refused to accept a society so structured. Intelligent, physically imposing and an orator .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. August Reckoning | Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama | William Warren Rogers Sr (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2004 | University of Alabama Press | EAN 9780817351199 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.…