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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
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by Lou, Falkner Williams
Sales Rank: 1331611
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Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
Published by: University of Georgia Press September 27, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0820326593
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0820326597
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 11.2 ounces
Chronicle of Higher Education
"Essential reading, especially at the present time. . . ."
Law and History Review
"[A]n great microcosm of the constitutional issues of Reconstruction, illuminating how they intersected with wider social and political developments. . . ."
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This review is from: The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (Studies in the Legal History of the South) (Hardcover)
I was troubled to discover the negative review above, because I regard this as a truly outstanding book. Indeed, I have decided to recommend it to incoming law students at the University of Texas Law School as one of the best ways to understand the limits of law and legal institutions. This book, although ostensibly about a very narrow subject, helps us to understand why what has come to be called "regime change"--or "reconstruction"--is so very difficult, if not impossible, unless one is willing to put almost limitless resources into the project. South Carolina, the home of the most hotheaded secessionists, might have lost the battle, but most of the white population had scarcely changed its mind about proper political relations between whites and blacks (who might well have been a majority of the population). It was no surprise, then, that the Ku Klux Klan proved to be a popular organization among South Carolina whites, who believed that terrorism might succeed in restoring white domination and black subordination. An heroic US attorney made valiant efforts to prosecute the Klan, but a major point of the book is that there were simply too many defendants and too few resources. The Grant Administration ultimately proved unwilling to pay the price required truly to change the vicious regime of racial oppression. I will leave it up to readers to make analogies to contemporary events. But I cannot recommend this book high enough, both for its historical analysis and its (unintended) resonance with regard to current events. Sanford Levinson University of Texas Law School
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