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Testimony taken by the Joint select committee to inquire in to the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states Mississippi (Volume I)

Testimony taken by the Joint select committee to inquire in to the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states Mississippi (Volume I)

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ISBN10: 935370510X
ISBN13: 9789353705107
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
America tried to rebuild itself on the witness stand. In Mississippi, the struggle after the Civil War was not only political, but deadly. The record is chillingly plain. Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States: Mississippi (Volume I) gathers a government document collection of depositions and exchanges taken during a federal inquiry into reconstruction era violence and the machinery that sustained it. As a congressional hearing transcript drawing on senate investigation records and reconstruction committee reports, it traces how power was contested in reconstruction Mississippi: from radical reconstruction politics and local law enforcement to organised terror, including ku klux klan testimony and accounts of black voter intimidation. Read as evidence, it is a legal history reference; read as narrative, it is an urgent portrait of the post civil war South, where citizenship and safety were negotiated day by day. For American history researchers, this volume offers primary material with the immediacy of voices recorded under oath and the gravity of a nation testing its own promises. For the curious general reader and the classic-history collector, it stands as one of the era's most revealing artefacts: a sober, essential window into how democracy can be defended or undone. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A stark cornerstone of the national archive.

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