South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900

South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900

  • Autor: Tindall, George Brown
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • Col·lecció: Southern Classics
  • ISBN: 9780872490420
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643363004
  • Lloc de publicació:  South Carolina , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2021
  • Mes: Desembre
  • DDC: 975.7/00496073
  • Idioma: Anglés

The history of African Americans in South Carolina after Reconstruction and before Jim Crow

First published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased from public memory. In this pathbreaking book, George B. Tindall turns to the period after Reconstruction before a tide of reaction imposed a new system of controls on the black population of the state. He examines the progress and achievements, along with the frustrations, of South Carolina's African Americans in politics, education, labor, and various aspects of social life during the short decades before segregation became the law and custom of the land. Chronicling the evolution of Jim Crow white supremacy, the book originally appeared on the eve of the Civil Rights movement when the nation's system of disfranchisement, segregation, and economic oppression was coming under increasing criticism and attack.

Along with Vernon L. Wharton's The Negro in Mississippi, 1865–1890 (1947) which also shed new light on the period after Reconstruction, Tindall's treatise served as an important source for C. Vann Woodward's influential The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955). South Carolina Negroes now reappears fifty years later in an environment of reaction against the Civil Rights movement, a a situation that parallels in many ways the reaction against Reconstruction a century earlier. A new introduction by Tindall reviews the book's origins and its place in the literature of Southern and black history.

  • Cover
  • SOUTH CAROLINA NEGROES 1877–1900
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Introduction: Revisiting South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900
  • Foreword to the First Edition
  • 1 Slavery and Reconstruction
  • 2 The Twilight of Reconstruction
  • 3 The Decline of the Republican Party
  • 4 Negroes in Politics
  • 5 Nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment
  • 6 Negroes in Agriculture
  • 7 Nonagricultural Pursuits
  • 8 The Liberian Exodus
  • 9 The Migratory Urge
  • 10 The Negro Church
  • 11 Education
  • 12 The Context of Violence
  • 13 Crime and Convict Leasing
  • 14 Care of the Indigent and Defective
  • 15 Social Life
  • 16 The Color Line
  • 17 Some Evaluations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR