August Reckoning by William Warren Rogers
During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions - like those in other southern states - were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria.
William Warren Rogers is Emeritus Professor of History at Florida State University and author of The One-Gallused Rebellion: Agrarianism in Alabama. Robert David Ward is Emeritus Professor of History at Georgia Southern University and coauthor (with Rogers) of Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780817351199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0817351191 |
| Title | August Reckoning |
| Author | William Warren Rogers |
| Series | Library Of Alabama Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Alabama Press |
| Year published | 2004-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 207 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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