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    Bricks without straw : a novel / Albion W. Tourgée ; edited with a new introduction by Carolyn L. Karcher.

    By: Tourgée, Albion W, 1838-1905Contributor(s): Karcher, Carolyn L, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009Description: 450 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822343950; 0822343959; 9780822344131; 0822344130Subject(s): Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction | Freedmen -- Southern States -- Fiction | African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction | Southern States -- Fiction | Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) | African Americans | Freedmen | Southern States | United States | 1865-1877Genre/Form: Fiction. | History.DDC classification: 813/.4 LOC classification: PS3087 | .B75 2009
    Contents:
    Introduction -- Chronology -- Bricks without straw -- Annotations.
    Summary: A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, "Bricks Without Straw" offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgee, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina following the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgee worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and fought against what he called the "counter-revolution" that destroyed Reconstruction.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction -- Chronology -- Bricks without straw -- Annotations.

    A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, "Bricks Without Straw" offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgee, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina following the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgee worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and fought against what he called the "counter-revolution" that destroyed Reconstruction.

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