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Archival Data Profile
- Page Count 272
- Publication Year 2007
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- ISBN-13 9780374530693
Redemption
Archival Summary & Scope
"An arresting piece of popular history." ―Sean Wilentz, *The New York Times Book Review*Nicholas Lemann's *Redemption* opens with the 1873 Colfax Massacre, where a white militia of Confederate veterans massacred hundreds of Black residents in Louisiana. This ignited an insurgency of political terrorism by white Southern Democrats, aiming to overturn the 14th and 15th Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for Black power structures. Lemann's groundbreaking work is the first to detail this organized racial violence, which culminated in Mississippi in 1875.
Archival Categorization Notes
This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of American Civil War. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Causes & Aftermath, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.
