Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls : White Supremacy Versus Democracy in the Elections Of 1868-1880.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Suffrage--Georgia--History--19th century.

African Americans.

Elections--Georgia--History--19th century.

Elections.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Georgia.

Georgia--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability to participate at the polls. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book details this struggle for racial justice and democracy in postwar Georgia, with an eye on issues that have persisted more than 150 years later"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Preface

Prologue

1. Marching Toward War

2. Reconstructing Georgia

3. Darien: Black Radical Republican Central

4. Lexington: Heart of the Land of Cotton

5. Trenton: the Edge of the Yeoman Frontier

6. Resisting Redemption

Epilogue: Redeemers Still?

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Hogan, Richard Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls

ISBN:

9781476649719