The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
by Stephen Budiansky
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Author: Stephen BudianskyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-01-24
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Reviews of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Book Review: Very Effective
Summary: 4 Stars
This is actually an excellent book. I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 only because it wasn't what I expected, plus it's not the kind of history I typically like.
As others have said, it does seem to be just a series of loosely strung-together vignettes, with very little analysis. On second thought, though, the particular vignettes the author chose are really very telling. And there is a real flow, from the early hopes of reconstruction to its tragic denouement. Similarly, there really isn't that much need for analysis - the facts really do speak for themselves.
In fact, this is the real strength of this book, in my opinion. The behaviour evidenced in this book is so awful (and typically so hidden and swept under the rug) that it really makes me wonder about this country, and how we can ever overcome a past like this.
If you're interested in more books along these lines, try:
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Summary of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction eraBetween 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a ?New South? in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared by all. In his vivid, fast-paced narrative of the era now known as Reconstruction, Stephen Budiansky illuminates the lives of five remarkable men?two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave?whose idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred would not be matched for nearly a century. The Bloody Shirt is a story of violence, racism, division, and heroism that sheds new light on a crucial time in America?s history.
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