"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, "The New
York Times Book Review" Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary
book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873
in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate
veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and
massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This
began an insurgency that changed the course of American history:
for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of
political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent
structures of black political power. "Redemption" is the first book
to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial
violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.
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