| Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina During Reconstruction Contributor(s): Drago, Edmund L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557285411 ISBN-13: 9781557285416 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1999 Annotation: In South Carolina, in the aftermath of the Civil War, a group of ex-slaves joined the Democratic "Red Shirts, " white paramilitary clubs dedicated to restoring antebellum values. Drawing on primary sources, Edmund L. Drago examines the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 975.700 |
| LCCN: 98-37819 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.34" W x 9.28" (0.87 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |