Bricks Without Straw

Albion Winegar Tourgée

Original title: Bricks without straw

earliest edition we have, 1969 Duke University Press, 2009 450 pages

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"Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, se...

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Bricks without straw edition · 2009 · Duke University Press · 450 pages · 9780822343950
Bricks Without Straw paperback · 2006 · Hard Press · 348 pages · 9781406929461
Bricks without straw edition · 1982 · Dawson · 277 pages
Bricks without straw edition · 1969 · Louisiana State University Press · 455 pages

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