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Colored Farmers' Alliance
convict labor
corporations
cotton mills
Daniel Russell
disfranchisement in North Carolina
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Farmers Alliance
freed people
freedmen
fusion in North Carolina
industrialists
industry
insurgency
interracial cooperation
James City rebellion
Jim Crow
Knights of Labor
landlords
Leonidas Lafayette Polk
literacy test
Marion Butler
monetization of silver
North Carolina
panic of 1893
Peoples' party
political economy
political economy in North Carolina
poll taxes
poor whites
populism
Populists
proletarianization
property
Red Shirts
Redeemers
Redemption
reforms
Republicans
revolution
sharecropping
social order
stock laws
tenancy
white supremacy
Wilmington coup and massacre
Product details
- ISBN 9781469689838
- Dimensions: 25 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2026
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Chronicling the rise and fall of North Carolina’s fusion movement, this book illuminates an intricate interplay between politics, economic agendas, and racism. It examines how wealthy agriculturalists, industrialists, lawyers, merchants, and railroad leaders manipulated the state’s political, economic, and social structures to assert dominance and maintain white supremacy, undermining the power gained by African Americans during Reconstruction. By the mid-1890s, however, Black and white Republicans and supporters of the smaller Peoples' Party formed a coalition known as fusion, upending two decades of the Democratic Party’s white elite political domination in North Carolina. After four years, the Democratic Party mobilized under the menacing banner of white supremacy and, led by conservative, pro-business white people, restored the party’s control over the state government.
Craig Thurtell contends that an examination of this period reveals that race was not the sole factor in the Democratic Party’s quest for control. Instead, elite white men sought to establish a new social order influenced by class divisions, and Short of a Revolution provides a comprehensive analysis of these dynamics, revealing the multifaceted motivations behind the political shifts of late nineteenth-century North Carolina.
Craig Thurtell contends that an examination of this period reveals that race was not the sole factor in the Democratic Party’s quest for control. Instead, elite white men sought to establish a new social order influenced by class divisions, and Short of a Revolution provides a comprehensive analysis of these dynamics, revealing the multifaceted motivations behind the political shifts of late nineteenth-century North Carolina.
Craig Thurtell is an independent scholar.
