Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state
senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell
County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople,
and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection,
Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding
of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's
murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the
long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at
the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race,
politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The
struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina,
Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation.
Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and
landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long
afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John
Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped
its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and
contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window
into the struggle to control the future of the South.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Drew A. Swanson
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4696-7471-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4696-7471-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781469674711 |
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