Freedom's dominion : a saga of white resistance to federal power / Jefferson Cowie.
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- United States -- Race relations -- History
- Barbour County (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History
- White supremacy movements -- United States -- History
- White supremacy movements -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History
- Civil rights -- United States -- History
- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History
- Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States
- Liberty -- Political aspects -- Alabama -- Barbour County
- White people -- United States -- Attitudes
- Barbour County (Ala.) -- History
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
An "important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant" ( New York Times ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom--their freedom to dominate others.
In Freedom's Dominion , historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-479) and index.
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.
A prize-winning historian chronicles the long-running clash between white people and federal authority by focusing on Barbour County, Alabama and its history of fighting Reconstruction, integration, and the New Deal.