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Bricks without straw; a novel,

Tourgée was a Radical Republican Carpetbagger and political leader in post-Civil War North Carolina, where he championed rights for African Americans. Bricks Without Straw (1880) is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence again...

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Main Author: Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; [etc.], [©1880]
Subjects and Genres:
1865-1877
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
North Carolina > Fiction.
Caroline du Nord > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
North Carolina.
United States.
novels.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Novels.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) > United States > 1880.
Publishers' advertisements.
Romans.
Online Access:Internet Archive, UNC Chapel Hill copy
Internet Archive, UNC-Chapel Hill copy
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Summary: Tourgée was a Radical Republican Carpetbagger and political leader in post-Civil War North Carolina, where he championed rights for African Americans. Bricks Without Straw (1880) is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery. --Amazon.com.
Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, [7]-521 pages frontispiece, illustrations 18 cm

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