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Book SynopsisIn this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they functioned within the political system. Thus, as one reviewer has commented, 'he penetrates the superficial preoccupations over whether black politicians were venal or gullible to see whether they wielded power and influence and, if they did, how and to what ends and against what obstacles.'
'Well crafted and well written, it not only broadens our knowledge of the period, but also deepens it, something that recent books on Reconstruction have too often failed to do.' -- Michael Perman, American Historical Review.
' . . . a valuable study of post-Civil War black leaders in a state where Negro control came closest to realization during Reconstruction. . . . Effectively merging the techniques of quantitative analysis with those of narrative history, Holt shatters a n
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Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1978.
Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1978. * Southern Historical Association *
