This is a chronicle of postwar resistance in the Palmetto State.
""State of Rebellion"" recounts the volatile course of
Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest,
and most dynamic federal presence in the years immediately
following the Civil War. Richard Zuczek examines the opposition of
conservative white South Carolinians to the Republican-led program
and the federal and state governments' attempts to quell such
resistance. Contending that the issues that had driven secession -
the relationship of the states to the federal government and the
status of African Americans - remained unresolved even after
Northern victory, Zuczek describes the period from 1865 to 1877 as
a continuation of the struggle that began in 1861. He argues that
Republican efforts failed primarily because of an organized,
coherent effort by white Southerners committed to white supremacy.
Zuczek details the tactics - from judicial and political fraud to
economic coercion, terrorism, and guerrilla activity - employed by
conservatives to nullify the African American vote, control African
American labor, and oust northern Republicans from the state. He
documents the federal government's attempt to quash the
conservative challenge but shows that, by 1876, white opposition
was so unified, widespread, and well armed that it passed beyond
government control.
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