Bricks without straw
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Albion W. Tourgée ...
Publisher: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; [etc., etc.
Published: 1880
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery"--Dukeupress