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Loading... HURRAH FOR HAMPTON!: BLACK RED SHIRTS IN SC DURING RECONSTRUCTIONby Edmund L. Drago
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This post-revisionist study examines the motives and the concerns of the ex-slaves in South Carolina who supported a movement that eventually led to white supremacy. Although most freedmen throughout the states of the former Confederacy were Republicans loyal to the party of the Federal government that had emancipated them, they were factions of African-American voters who aligned themselves with local white Democratic leaders. one such group of black conservatives joined the "Red Shirts," white paramilitary clubs that attempted to restore antebellum values in electing former Confederate general Wade Hampton governor of South Carolina in 1876. Drago's fine analysis recovers and explains this lost aspect of Southern black history. Drawing on primary sources that include testimonies of several black Red Shirts before a Congressional investigation of the election and eleven slave narratives, he de-romanticizes the black experience by examining the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)975.7History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. South CarolinaLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |