TY - JOUR
AU - Brown, R. Ben
AB - 1582 TheJournal of American History March 1996 War, they regained during Reconstruction in Mississippi and a few other states in 1875 through a campaign of terrorism to restore is described as a "regionwide holocaust" or white supremacy. Taking a supposedly new when historians). G. Randall and David Her­ approach to the postwar period, Kennedy de­ bert Donald are termed "apologists for the scribes the thirteen volumes of congressional rapists" (that is, northern business interests testimony relating to the Ku Klux Klan as who connived with white supremacists to end the "survivals of a historical coverup far more Reconstruction). The author too often resorts successful and momentous" than that of Wa­ to moral indignation rather than employing tergate. This preposterous assertion immedi­ the moral imagination that graces the work ately tips off the reader that something is awry of an Eric Foner. here. Over the past three decades, historians In addressing a general audience, Kennedy have argued that Reconstruction was either an might have made an important contribution, unsuccessful revolution or not all that revolu­ but his writing style runs from colloquial to tionary, and in doing so they have reinter­ polemical to simply odd. Most irritating of preted old 
TI - New South — New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South. By Harold D. Woodman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xii, 124 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-1941-5.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2945364
DA - 1996-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/new-south-new-law-the-legal-foundations-of-credit-and-labor-relations-155zBCDUpp
SP - 1582
EP - 1583
VL - 82
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -