By V. Elaine Thompson
"With its white columned houses and archetypal courthouse sq. Clinton, Louisiana, exudes the romantic air of secrecy of a 'civilization long past with the wind.' Historians, after all, needs to stability romance with realism. This booklet does accurately that. no longer maybe considering James C. Bonner's vintage 1944 research of Milledgeville and Baldwin County, Georgia, has any historian given extra sustained and considerate consciousness to the background of a small southern group. via cautious use of census information and quite a lot of archival resources, Elaine Thompson takes readers in the back of the Greek Revival facades so loved by means of advertisement movie makers to bare the substructure of slavery, violence, exploitation, and Reconstruction political strife that left an everlasting mark at the lifestyles and tradition of Clinton and the Florida parishes. even if post-1865 struggles in Clinton are much less dramatic than the racial massacres in different places, the Clinton adventure is extra commonplace of the sluggish realignment of monetary and social kin that followed the increase of Jim Crow practices in imprecise courthouse cities around the rural South. Thompson charts those advancements with perception and candor. This publication represents a huge step within the lengthy past due paintings of giving neighborhood southern groups the type of genuine prior which can foster sincere engagement with difficulties of the current day."
--Clarence L. Mohr, writer, at the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil struggle Georgia
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