{"product_id":"books-redemption-by-nicholas-lemann","title":"Redemption","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768584397073,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374530693.jpg?v=1783945990","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/books-redemption-by-nicholas-lemann","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}