The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction

by William A Blair and William A. Blair

Book Overview

After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the readmitted states compile reports of "murders and outrages" to catalog the extent of violence, to prove that the reports of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663457
• ISBN13: 9781469663456
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.7" x 8.4"