{"product_id":"redemption-the-last-battle-of-the-civil-war-9780374530693","title":"Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An arresting piece of popular history.\" --Sean Wilentz, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. \u003ci\u003eRedemption\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Lemann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374530693","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709235531913,"sku":"9780374530693","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6f444c72-9ce0-4e95-a562-ac8b66ea3820.jpg?v=1719512674","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/redemption-the-last-battle-of-the-civil-war-9780374530693","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}