Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy

Name: Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy
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ISBN: 9780807848395

ISBN-10: 0807848395

ISBN-13: 9780807848395

Edition: 2000

Authors: Stephen Kantrowitz

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Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow. As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina governor, and U.S. senator, Tillman offered a vision of reform that was proudly white supremacist. In the name of white male militance, productivity, and solidarity, he justified lynching and disfranchised most of his state's black voters. His arguments and accomplishments rested on the premise that only productive and virtuous white men should govern and that federal power could never be…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Stephen Kantrowitz is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy .



Introduction




Mastery and Its Discontents



Planters and ""theGentlemanfrom Africa""



The Shotgun Wedding of White Supremacy and Reform



Farmers, Dudes, White Negroes, and the Sun-Browned Goddess



The Mob and the State



Every White Man Who Is Worthy of a Vote



The Uses of a Pitchfork



Demagogues and Disordered Households


Epilogue: The Reconstruction of American Democracy


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


Illustrations


Map of South Carolina in the 1880s


Tillman in his