Freedom on Trial
The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
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Scott Farris
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The Confederacy lost the Civil War but quickly began to win the peace when a mysterious organization arose called the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux, as it was then called, sought to restore white supremacy by terrorizing the formerly enslaved to prevent them from voting or owning firearms. To support Black resistance to the KKK's campaign of murder and mayhem, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended the writ of habeas corpus in large portions of South Carolina and sent the famed 7th Cavalry to make mass arrests.
Grant's new attorney general, the first former Confederate to serve in a presidential Cabinet and an ardent advocate for Black equality, Amos T. Akerman, aggressively prosecuted the Ku Klux in a series of sensational trials that shocked the nation and forced a reckoning regarding just how much the Civil War and the recently enacted 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution had changed America and its notions of citizenship.
Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn.
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By Hands Now Known
- Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
- De: Margaret A. Burnham
- Narrado por: Diana Blue
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- De sharon en 11-24-22
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Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics
- 1776-1963
- De: Donald Jeffries, Ron Paul - foreword
- Narrado por: Lars Mikaelson
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Jeffries spares no one and nothing in this explosive new book. The atrocities of Union troops during the Civil War, and Allied troops during World War II, are documented in great detail. The Nuremberg Trials are presented as the antithesis of justice. In the follow-up to his previous, bestselling book Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics, Jeffries demonstrates that crimes, corruption, and conspiracies didn't start with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Southern apologetic nonesense
- De Amazon Customer en 07-26-20
De: Donald Jeffries, y otros
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The Day Freedom Died
- The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
- De: Charles Lane
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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America after the Civil War was a land of shattered promises and entrenched hatreds. In the explosive South, danger took many forms: white extremists loyal to a defeated world terrorized former slaves, while in the halls of government, bitter and byzantine political warfare raged between Republicans and Democrats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Story That Had to Be Told
- De pablo en 07-07-17
De: Charles Lane
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
- A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- De: W. Caleb McDaniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.
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5 out of 5 stars
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insightful and educational
- De Mark W. en 06-29-20
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Reconstruction
- A Concise History
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy, would ultimately lead to his impeachment and the institution of Radical Reconstruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Well Done
- De Rob Welch en 08-20-21
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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The War Before the War
- Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
- De: Andrew Delbanco
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great promise greater disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 12-09-18
De: Andrew Delbanco
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John Brown, Abolitionist
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
- De: David S. Reynolds
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 25 h y 14 m
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Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. This brilliant biography of Brown (1800-1859) by the prize-winning critic and cultural biographer David S. Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who gripped slavery by the throat and triggered the Civil War. When does principled resistance become anarchic brutality? How can a murderer be viewed as a heroic freedom fighter? The case of John Brown opens windows on these timely issues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story of the man who saved America from itself
- De Marc en 09-29-20
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- De: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Atrocities
- De Tad Davis en 07-05-18
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Conviction
- The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
- De: Denver Nicks, John Nicks
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. Political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a piece of history 💕
- De Private en 01-12-21
De: Denver Nicks, y otros
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We Are Not Yet Equal
- Understanding Our Racial Divide
- De: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. It launched her as an in-demand commentator on contemporary race issues for national print and television media and garnered her an invitation to speak to the Democratic Congressional Caucus. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De JD en 07-06-20
De: Carol Anderson, y otros
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Abe
- Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- De: David S. Reynolds
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 33 h y 33 m
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Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life will always be part of our American education.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Cultural History is not a biography
- De Marc M. Sager en 11-09-20
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Robert E. Lee and Me
- A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
- De: Ty Seidule
- Narrado por: Ty Seidule
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the US Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changing a heart and mind
- De Matt Poe en 02-01-21
De: Ty Seidule
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A People's History of the Supreme Court
- The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
- De: Peter Irons, Howard Zinn - foreword
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 28 h y 32 m
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A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed this book
- De Paul en 02-19-20
De: Peter Irons, y otros
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They Called Themselves the KKK
- De: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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"Boys, let us get up a club." Six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South. This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America's democracy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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not about the kkk
- De Randy en 08-24-10
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln - two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Never Knew That!
- De William G. Stuart en 10-19-20
De: H. W. Brands
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Ida B. the Queen
- De: Michelle Duster
- Narrado por: Michelle Duster
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator”. In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for White passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I was expecting something different
- De L en 02-01-21
De: Michelle Duster
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Freedom on Trial
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- 05-02-21
Fascinating story; very well-read
Wild story. It feels like it should become a movie or HBO series. The author seems to have come across some previously unnoticed historical sources that provide a very "on-the-ground" look at Reconstruction-era South. Will definitely listen to again soon. The reader did an excellent job.
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- Daniel S. Brownell
- 12-24-22
The story of my family
This story is about my family. I want to thank the author for doing this.
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