Stephen Kantrowitz: 2 books

Book cover of More Than Freedom

More Than Freedom

Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889

by Stephen Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...
Book cover of Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy
by Stephen Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

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...
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