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An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American record In May 1866, simply a year following the Civil War concluded, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial assault that found whites rampage through the city's dark neighborhoods. By enough time the fires consuming dark churches and institutions were released, forty-six freed people have been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other proof white amount of resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, insurance policies to guarantee the liberty of the region's four million blacks - and one of the very most remarkable tests in American record. Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis is a portrait of an Southern city that starts an entirely new view onto the Civil Conflict and its aftermath. A momentous countrywide event, the riot is also exceptional for being "one of the best-documented shows of the American nineteenth century." Yet Ash is the first to mine the resources available to full effect. Bringing postwar Memphis to vivid life, he takes us among newly arrived Yankees, ex - Rebels, boisterous Irish immigrants, and trying freed people, and shows how Americans of the period worked, prayed, indicated their politics, and dreamed the future. And exactly how they passed away: Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense narration of the riot gets the immediacy of the greatest journalism. Informed with nuance, sophistication, and a noiseless moral enthusiasm, A Massacre in Memphis is Civil War-era record like no other.
