A man of bad reputation : the murder of John Stephens and the contested landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
- Title
- A man of bad reputation : the murder of John Stephens and the contested landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction / Drew A. Swanson.
- Published by
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Author
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- Description
- xii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina, Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation. Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window into the struggle to control the future of the South"--
- Alternative title
- Murder of John Stephens and the contested landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
- Subject
- Stephens, John Walter, 1834-1870 > Assassination
- Stephens, John Walter, 1834-1870
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century) > History
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
- 1800-1899
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > North Carolina
- African Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions > 19th century
- Assassination
- Race relations
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- African Americans > Social conditions
- African Americans
- North Carolina > Race relations
- Caswell County (N.C.) > History > 19th century
- North Carolina
- North Carolina > Caswell County
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Introduction: Premeditation -- Promise -- Perdition -- Pyrrhic Victories -- Purgatory -- Pretext -- Prior Appropriation -- Epilogue: Propter Hoc.
- Call number
- Sc E 23-1146
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Swanson, Drew A., 1979- author.
- Title
- A man of bad reputation : the murder of John Stephens and the contested landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction / Drew A. Swanson.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological term
- 1800-1899
- Other form:
- ebook version : 9781469674735
- LCCN
- 2023023183
- ISBN
- 9781469674704 hardcover
- 146967470X hardcover
- 9781469674711 paperback
- 1469674718 paperback
- 9781469674728 electronic book
- 9781469674735 electronic book
- 9798890863829 electronic book
- Research call number
- Sc E 23-1146