Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana

David T. Ballantyne's Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural Reconstruction success story, emphasizing the resilience of Black politics and the persistence of significant divisions among white residents that allowed the Republican Party to gain and maintain power there. It was only with the collapse of state-level Republican power in 1877 that Democratic forces in the parish were able to dismantle local Republican political control and gradually constrict Black freedoms.

Author: David T. Ballantyne
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 02/04/2025
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780807183038