The revolution that failed
Subtitle: reconstruction in Natchitoches
By: Adam Fairclough
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780813056623
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconstruction in history; title: The collapse of Confederate Louisiana; title: Freedom and survival; title: The lost cause and the politics of loyalty; title: Organizing the Republican Party; title: Louisiana democrats and the 1868 elections; title: Republicans in power; title: Unprincipled politics; title: The Natchitoches "scalawags"; title: The White League insurrection; title: The politics of murder; title: The election of 1876; title: The Compromise of 1877; title: End game in Natchitoches; title: The slow death of the Republican Party; title: Reconstruction's legacy and the Civil Rights Movement.