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Format: 1 online resource (201 pages)

ISBN: 9780817383282

Content: Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to believe, in the transforming power of law. As a starting point in creating the groundwork of genuine civility and progress in the state, these reformers insisted on equal treatment and due process in elections, allocation of resources, and legal proceedings. To an educator like Julia Tutwiler or a clergyman like James F. Smith, due process was a question of simple fairness or Christian principle. To lawyers like Benjamin F. Porter, Thomas Goode Jones, or Henry D. Clayton, devotion to due process was part of the true religion of the common law. To a former Populist radical like Joseph C. Manning, due process and a free ballot were requisites for the transformation of society.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction by G. Ward Hubbs -- 1. Harry Toulmin: A Frontier Justinian -- 2. Benjamin F. Porter: Whig and Law Reformer -- 3. Julia Tutwiler: Preparation for a Lifetime of Reform -- 4. James F. Smith: Ordination and Order -- 5. Thomas Goode Jones: The Personal Code of a Public Man -- 6. Joseph C. Manning: Defender of the Voteless -- 7. Henry D. Clayton: Plantation Progressive on the Federal Bench -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817356019

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (240 pages) : , illustrations, photographs

ISBN: 9780817388089 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Hubbs, G. Ward, 1952- Searching for freedom after the Civil War : klansman, carpetbagger, scalawag, and freedman. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, c2015 ISBN 9780817318604

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: XVI, 223 S. , Ill. , 24 cm

ISBN: 9780817318604

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207 - 216) and index , KlansmanCarpetbagger -- Scalawag -- Freedman.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817388089

Language: English

Keywords: USA ; Alabama ; Reconstruction ; Ku-Klux-Klan ; Freiheit ; Geschichte

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Format: 1 online resource (240 pages)

ISBN: 9780817388089

Content: Winner of the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael Thomas Book Award. In Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman, G. Ward Hubbs uses a stark and iconic political cartoon to illuminate postwar conflicts over the meaning of freedom in the American South. The cartoon first appeared in the Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor, published by local Ku Klux Klan boss Ryland Randolph, as a swaggering threat aimed at three individuals. Hanged from an oak branch clutching a carpetbag marked "OHIO" is the Reverend Arad S. Lakin, the Northern-born incoming president of the University of Alabama. Swinging from another noose is Dr. Noah B. Cloud-agricultural reformer, superintendent of education, and deemed by Randolph a "scalawag" for joining Alabama's reformed state government. The accompanying caption, penned in purple prose, similarly threatens Shandy Jones, a politically active local man of color. Using a dynamic and unprecedented approach that interprets the same events through four points of view, Hubbs artfully unpacks numerous layers of meaning behind this brutal two-dimensional image. The four men associated with the cartoon-Randolph, Lakin, Cloud, and Jones-were archetypes of those who were seeking to rebuild a South shattered by war. Hubbs explores these broad archetypes but also delves deeply into the four men's life stories, writings, speeches, and decisions in order to recreate each one's complex worldview and quest to live freely. Their lives, but especially their four very different understandings of freedom, help to explain many of the conflicts of the 1860s. The result is an intellectual tour de force. General readers of this highly accessible volume will discover fascinating new insights about life during and after America's greatest crisis, as will scholars of the Civil War,

Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- One. Klansman -- Two. Carpetbagger -- Three. Scalawag -- Four. Freedman -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Characters -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Caption to A Prospective Scene in the "City of Oaks," 4th of March, 1869 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817318604

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780817318604

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 0-8173-9233-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8173-5944-3

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (200 p.)

ISBN: 9780823292981

Series Statement: Reconstructing America

Content: Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war’s end. In doing so, it shows that “the war” did not actually end with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining “freedom”; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing a new party system; and determining the scope and meanings of “union.”

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: An Unfinished War -- , 1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction -- , 2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri -- , 3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 -- , 4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front -- , 5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power -- , 6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia -- , 7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation -- , 8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause -- , 9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact -- , 10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South -- , 11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party -- , Notes -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823292981

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292981

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Format: 1 online resource (232 pages) : , illustrations, photographs

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8173-8871-0 , 0-585-27300-6

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Salted him; or, An auctioneer doing all the bidding.--Old Charley and the President's veto.--Old Charley and his impromptu ride.--A hand-around supper in Alabama.--A steamboat captain's love adventure.--How Tom Croghan carved the turkey.--Spiritualism explained.--Piscatory reflections and reminiscences.--New York drummer's ride to Greensboro.--Jemmy Owen's fifty dollar note; or, 'Moind whay ye say'--John Bealle's accident; or, "How the Widow Dudu treated insanity"--Relief for Ireland! or, John Brown's bad luck with his pickled beef.--A lively village; or, Brisk speculation in a new commodity.--Misplaced confidence; or, Bilking A Boniface!--Notes. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8173-0057-0

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8173-0477-0

Language: English