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White Terror - The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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White Terror - The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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This day-by-day, county-by-county chronicle of the activities of
the hooded night riders traces the development of the Klan from its
founding in Pulaski, Tennessee as a social fraternity devoted to
playing pranks, to 1870-71 when Congress and the federal judiciary
launched a major crackdown. Trelease sees the Klan as the South's
grassroot response to radical Reconstruction ("The Klan became in
effect a terrorist arm of the Democratic Party") though its
decentralized structure precluded the "conspiracy" from assuming
more than local power. Trelease offers no evaluation of its social
base or financial backing apart from the unsatisfactory
generalization that "members of every class were implicated" nor do
we learn what this unique organization dedicated to "Chivalry,
Humanity, Mercy and Patriotism" meant to the self-image of the
humiliated Confederacy. The weird rituals, oaths, and iconography
are treated as so much mumbo-jumbo apparently unworthy of
historical appraisal. Trelease short-circuits his history of the
Klan in 1871 without making it clear whether the eclipse was caused
by the not-too-vigorous attack of the Federal judiciary or whether
it was simply an optical illusion produced by the general
post-Reconstruction consensus to "leave the South alone." This
massive, highly detailed study will be of interest to specialists,
particularly regional historians, but the layman is better off with
David Chalmers' Hooded Americanism (1965), lest he miss the forest
for the trees. (Kirkus Reviews)
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