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020    9781635576634|q(hardback) 
020    1635576636|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)1260191937 
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050  4 E185.2|b.W55 2023 
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100 1  Williams, Kidada E.,|eauthor. 
245 10 I saw death coming :|ba history of terror and survival in 
       the war against Reconstruction /|cKidada E. Williams. 
246 30 History of terror and survival in the war against 
       Reconstruction 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Publishing,|c2023. 
300    xxv, 351 pages :|bmap ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-337) and 
       index. 
505 0  We had to pick ourselves up -- The devil was turned loose 
       -- I didn't know how soon they might come to send me up --
       They deviled us a while -- I don't ever expect in this 
       life to get over it -- They never intended to do me 
       justice -- What they did is hurting my family -- A 
       revolution in reverse. 
520    "The story of Reconstruction is often told from the 
       perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists 
       whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective 
       memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to 
       African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage 
       to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of
       white supremacist violence that persisted through the 
       1880s and beyond. For too long, their lived experiences 
       have been sidelined, impoverishing our understanding of 
       the obstacles post-Civil War Black families faced, their 
       inspiring determination to survive, and the physical and 
       emotional scars they bore because of it. In I Saw Death 
       Coming, Kidada E. Williams offers a breakthrough account 
       of the much-debated Reconstruction period, transporting 
       readers into the daily existence of formerly enslaved 
       people building hope-filled new lives. Drawing on 
       overlooked sources and bold new readings of the archives, 
       Williams offers a revelatory and, in some cases, minute-by
       -minute record of nighttime raids and Ku Klux Klan 
       strikes. And she deploys cutting-edge scholarship on 
       trauma to consider how the effects of these attacks would 
       linger for decades--indeed, generations--to come. For 
       readers of Carol Anderson, Tiya Miles, and Clint Smith, I 
       Saw Death Coming is an indelible and essential book that 
       speaks to some of the most pressing questions of our 
       times."--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 
650  0 African Americans|xCivil rights|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 African Americans|xSocial conditions|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 African Americans|xHistory|y1863-1877. 
650  0 White supremacy movements|zUnited States. 
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