The Jackson County War
Subtitle: Reconstruction and resistance in post-Civil War Florida
By: Daniel R. Weinfeld
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780817317454; 9780817385989
Subjects: Politics and government; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); History
Description: Explains why citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered close to one hundred of their neighbors during the Reconstruction period following the end of the Civil War; focusing on the Freedman's Bureau, the development of African-American political leadership, and the emergence of white "Regulators."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Like so many children, 1865; title: Those pests that remind us daily of our degradation, 1866; title: You can't come here with any such equality, 1867; title: Depression is almost universal here, 1868; title: They believe there in gunpowder entirely, 1869; title: A small hell on earth, 1869; title: I have no ambition to fill a more honorable grave, 1870-1871; title: Whatever it was, it has passed away.