But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of ReconstructionThis is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw the intent and the results of that policy as revolutionary. Violence therefore became a counterrevolutionary instrument, placing the South in a pattern familiar to students of world revolution. |
Contents
The Specter of SaintDomingue | 16 |
The Memphis Race Riot | 33 |
New Orleans and the Emergence of Political Violence | 43 |
The Triumph of Jacobinism | 59 |
The Origins of the Counterrevolution | 81 |
The Search for a Strategy | 101 |
Louisiana 18711875 | 122 |
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