{"product_id":"august-reckoning-jack-turner-and-racism-in-post-civil-war-alabama-9780817351199","title":"August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Warren Rogers Sr | Robert David Ward | William Warren Rogers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613784916119,"sku":"9780817351199","price":2441.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780817351199.webp?v=1775087874","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/august-reckoning-jack-turner-and-racism-in-post-civil-war-alabama-9780817351199","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}