Bricks Without Straw
Original title: Bricks without straw
earliest edition we have, 1969 Duke University Press, 2009 450 pages
The Library of southern civilization
"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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