Fairclough, Adam, <br/><br/>
The revolution that failed :  reconstruction in Natchitoches / 
Adam Fairclough. 
 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Reconstruction in history --  The collapse of Confederate Louisiana --  Freedom and survival --  The lost cause and the politics of loyalty --  Organizing the Republican Party --  Louisiana democrats and the 1868 elections --  Republicans in power --  Unprincipled politics --  The Natchitoches "scalawags" --  The White League insurrection --  The politics of murder --  The election of 1876 --  The Compromise of 1877 --  End game in Natchitoches --  The slow death of the Republican Party --  Reconstruction's legacy and the Civil Rights Movement. 
<br/><br/> The book combines a fine-grain local study of the oldest European settlement in Louisiana, with the story of Reconstruction at the state and national level. It offers a dramatic narrative of political, racial, and personal conflicts, while putting forward an analysis of Reconstruction that challenges current received wisdom. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813052168 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F377  / .R486 2018