Shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 /

In From Eager Lips Came Shrill Hurrahs, Kate F.C. Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillin, Kate C�ot��e
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Land, labor, and violence
  • Black politics and violence
  • Getting organized : The Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina
  • Sin and redemption : The election of 1876
  • Strange fruit hanging from the palmetto tree : Lynching in South Carolina