The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
There was a time and place in American history when elections were decided through terror. Surveying the politics of the South 14 years after the close of the Civil War, one North Carolina state judge observed that opponents of racial justice had
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
by Stephen Budiansky
(Viking, $28)
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