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The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic, and political stability in the wake of emancipation and wartime destruction, and how did the South come together with its former enemies in the North? Why did the South not slip back into chaos? This book holds the keys to the answers to these tantalizing questions.
Author Joseph Ranney explodes the myth of a unified South and exposes just how complex and fragile the postwar recovery was. The end of slavery and the emergence of a radically new social order raised a host of thorny legal issues: What place should newly freed slaves have in Southern society? What was the proper balance between states' rights and a newly powerful federal government? How could postwar economic distress be eased without destroying property rights? Should new civil rights be extended to women as well as blacks? Southern states addressed these issues in surprisingly different ways.
Ranney also shatters the popular myth that a new legal system was imposed upon the South by the victorious North during Reconstruction. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators. How did that come about? Ranney provides some surprising answers. He also profiles judges and other lawmakers who shaped Southern law during and after Reconstruction, including heretofore little-known black leaders in the South. These extraordinary individuals created a legal heritage that assisted leaders of the second civil rights revolution a century after Reconstruction ended. This book adds immeasurably to our knowledge not only of Southern history, but also of American legal and social history.
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Carrie Funston
reviewed In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law on February 22, 2020
In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law
Short and sweet, and very powerful. This book is the story of Robert Paul Wolff's experience of moving from a philosophy department to a department of African American studies. Specifically, it's the story of how his outlook on the United States changed when he read the 50 books that the department assigns its new grad students to read for their degree.
In the process, he analyzes the "master narratives" of american history and shows how those themes (particularly "exceptionalism", and "freedom") only make sense if you tailor that history to avoid discussion of black folks and their experience.
The book is written in a compelling and lucid style, that foreground Wolff's experiences over complex or overly-analytical analyses of the works he highlights. In that sense, some of it's conclusions will not be particularly revelatory, especially for people steeped in African-american culture, politics, or history. Still, it is a very moving account of how, if one takes the time to look at them, the experiences of black people provide a VERY different outlook on the world we live in, and how it came to be.
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