White Terror
The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
$102.57
- Paperback
616 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2023
Summary
Allen W. Trelease’s White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to the Klan, Trelease discusses other night-riding groups, including the Ghouls, the White Brotherhood, and the Knights of the White Camellia. He treats the entire South state by state, details the close link bet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807178744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807178748 |
| Author: | Allen W. Trelease, Karen Cox |
| Publisher: | Louisiana State University Press |
| Imprint: | Louisiana State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 616 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
” White Terror is an important revisionist contribution to Reconstruction historiography–well-researched, well-organized, well-written.”
“Brilliant … the definitive book on the early Klan.”–Dominic Sandbrook, coauthor of The Rest Is History and cohost of The Rest Is History podcast“White Terror is an important revisionist contribution to Reconstruction historiography–well-researched, well-organized, well-written.”–Civil War History“Professor Trelease’s pages stand as a monument to the heroic minority, those freedmen and white Republicans who resisted the seemingly endless Democratic terror and who often paid for their determination with their lives.”–Journal of American History“This splendid study has stripped the Klan of the heroic imagery … and has revealed it for what it really was: a vicious organization manned by white Southerners of all classes, who hated, bullied, tortured, murdered, and betrayed, apparently without shame or remorse.”–Journal of Southern History
About The Author
Allen W. Trelease
Allen W. Trelease (1928-2011) was professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for twenty-seven years. He authored several books on southern history, including Reconstruction: The Great Experiment.
Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her most recent book is No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.
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