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The revolution that failed : reconstruction in Natchitoches / Adam Fairclough.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairclough, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natchitoches Parish (La.)--History.
- Natchitoches Parish (La.).
- Louisiana--History.
- Louisiana.
- History.
- Louisiana--Natchitoches Parish.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.
- Summary:
- The book combines a fine-grain local study of the oldest European settlement in Louisiana, with the story of Reconstruction at the state and national level. It offers a dramatic narrative of political, racial, and personal conflicts, while putting forward an analysis of Reconstruction that challenges current received wisdom.
- Contents:
- Reconstruction in history
- The collapse of Confederate Louisiana
- Freedom and survival
- The lost cause and the politics of loyalty
- Organizing the Republican Party
- Louisiana democrats and the 1868 elections
- Republicans in power
- Unprincipled politics
- The Natchitoches "scalawags"
- The White League insurrection
- The politics of murder
- The election of 1876
- The Compromise of 1877
- End game in Natchitoches
- The slow death of the Republican Party
- Reconstruction's legacy and the Civil Rights Movement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813056623
- 0813056624
- OCLC:
- 982539824
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