{"product_id":"a-massacre-in-memphis-the-race-riot-that-shook-the-nation-one-year-after-the-civil-war-paperback","title":"A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eV. Stephen Ash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks--and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history.\u003cbr\u003e Stephen V. Ash's \u003ci\u003eA Massacre in Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view into the Civil War and its aftermath. A momentous national event, the riot is also remarkable for being one of the best-documented episodes of the American nineteenth century. Yet Ash is the first to mine the sources available to full effect. Bringing postwar Memphis to vivid life, he shows us newly arrived Yankees, former Rebels, boisterous Irish immigrants, and striving freed people, and how Americans of the period worked, prayed, expressed their politics, imagined the future, and how they died. Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense narration of the riot has the immediacy of the best journalism.\u003cbr\u003e Told with nuance, grace, and a quiet moral passion, \u003ci\u003eA Massacre in Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e is Civil War-era history like no other.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen V. Ash\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFirebrand of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Year in the South\u003c\/i\u003e and other books on the Civil War era. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52752480436557,"sku":"9780809068302","price":33.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/SkhBaVFKOXRMUFcyUlpObjFHK3hJZz09.webp?v=1762923039","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/a-massacre-in-memphis-the-race-riot-that-shook-the-nation-one-year-after-the-civil-war-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}