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Blood At The Root: A Racial Cleansing In America

W. W. Norton & Company
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[A] vital investigation of ForsythÆs history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America. ùU.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white ônight ridersö launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells ForsythÆs tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and Æ80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth ôall whiteö well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of ForsythÆs history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).


  • | Author: Patrick Phillips
  • | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • | Publication Date: Sep 26, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 336 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/History
  • | ISBN-10: 0393354733
  • | ISBN-13: 9780393354737
Author:
Patrick Phillips
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date:
Sep 26, 2017
Number of pages:
336 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/History
ISBN-10:
0393354733
ISBN-13:
9780393354737