| August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Rogers, William Warren (Author), Ward, Robert David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817351191 ISBN-13: 9780817351199 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions--like those in other southern states--were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003025651 |
| Series: Library Alabama Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.06" W x 8.5" (0.62 lbs) 207 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria. |