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This Post-Revisionist Study examines the motives and the concerns of the ex-slaves in South Carolina who supported a movement that eventually led to white supremacy. Although most freedmen throughout the states of the former Confederacy were Republicans loyal to the party of the Federal government that had emancipated them, there were factions of African-American voters who aligned themselves with local white Democratic leaders.
One such group of black conservatives joined the "Red Shirts," white paramilitary clubs that attempted to restore antebellum values in electing former Confederate general Wade Hampton governor of South Carolina in 1876.
Drago's analysis recovers and explains this lost aspect of Southern black history. Drawing on primary sources that include testimonies of seven black Red Shirts before a Congressional investigation of the election and eleven slave narratives, he de-romanticizes the black experience by examining the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism.
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Politics and government, African Americans, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Hampton, wade, 1818-1902, African americans, south carolina, African americans, politics and government, South carolina, politics and government, South carolina, historyPeople
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Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction
1998, University of Arkansas Press
in English
1557285411 9781557285416
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-154) and index.
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