White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy & Southern Reconstruction By Allen W Trelease

White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy & Southern Reconstruction By Allen W Trelease

Hardcover

SBN 436539853

Publisher: Secker & Warburg Ltd 1972

Used-Good, The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear, edge worn, bumped. Netting very slightly visible at the front. Internally clean. No inscriptions. The book is now protected with a cellophane cover.

"Allen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during the Reconstruction period, and based as it is on massive research in primary sources, it remains the most comprehensive treatment of the subject. In addition to the Klan, Trelease discusses other night-riding groups, including the Ghouls, the White Brotherhood, and the Knights of the White Camellia. He treats the entire South state by state, details the close link between the Klan and the Democratic party, and recounts Republican efforts to resist the Klan."

Trelease's thesis that the Klan was a white supremist reaction to real and growing black power is well documented and the style is lively. The book will long be essential reading for serious students of all aspects of Reconstruction and those with a general interest in southern history.