Bibliograph

Freedom's dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power, Jefferson Cowie

Type

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Freedom's dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power, Jefferson Cowie

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Freedom's dominion

Oclc number

1351085601

Responsibility statement

Jefferson Cowie

Sub title

a saga of white resistance to federal power

Summary

"From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter, Americans have come to associate freedom with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. Few ideas are as central to the national mythos. But whenever the federal government has taken a stand for racial minorities, however halfhearted, white Americans have been quick to weaponize the concept of freedom, framing the state itself as a tyrannical obstacle to their own liberties. In Freedom's Dominion, prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie lays bare the tales of violence and power that lie beneath America's cherished ideal of freedom, through the history of one seemingly charming place in Alabama-Barbour County and its largest town, Eufaula.Tracing one town's story and a long struggle between local racism and federal power that continues to this day, Freedom's Dominion reveals how many white Americans came to view the federal government as an obstacle to their freedom-their freedom, that is, to oppress"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: George Wallace and American freedom -- Book one: Land -- Marshall Crawford's orders -- Land, liberty, and Jackson -- The killing of Hardeman Owens -- The compromise of Francis Scott Key -- Uprising -- Book two: Citizenship -- Igniting a wall of fire -- "Destroying freedom and liberty" -- The Greeley gamble and the dueling dual legislatures of 1872 -- The white line : afternoon, election day 1874 -- The fate of the scalawag : evening, election day 1874 -- Book three: Federal power in repose -- The prison mines -- White oligarchy as Jeffersonian democracy -- Lynching as an act of freedom -- A new deal for southside? -- The Bourbon from Barbour -- Book four: Democracy -- The fightin' judge -- The Albert Street club -- From Clayton to the nation -- The SCOPE of freedom -- The vote is not enough -- The Northern strategy -- Conclusion

Target audience

adult

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