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Author_David T. Ballantyne
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Civil War
Colfax Massacre
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KKK
Ku Klux Klan
Lost Cause
loyalty
murder
myths
paramilitary
politics
rape
Rapides Parish
Reconstruction
redemption
Republican Party
South
terror
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White League
Product details
- ISBN 9780807183038
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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David T. Ballantyne's Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural Reconstruction success story, emphasizing the resilience of Black politics and the persistence of significant divisions among white residents that allowed the Republican Party to gain and maintain power there. It was only with the collapse of state-level Republican power in 1877 that Democratic forces in the parish were able to dismantle local Republican political control and gradually constrict Black freedoms.
David T. Ballantyne is a senior lecturer in American history at Keele University and the author of New Politics in the Old South: Ernest F. Hollings in the Civil Rights Era.
