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

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The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

by Stephen Budiansky

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