Entrepreneur for equality Governor Rufus Bullock, commerce, and race in post-Civil War Georgia
This is the first full biography of Rufus Brown Bullock (1834-1907), the only elected Republican governor in Georgia history and a central figure both in the reconstruction of the state and the ascendancy of Atlanta as the premier city of the New South. Moreover, this work, which adds much revelator...
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Athens u.a.
Univ. of Georgia Press
1994
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This is the first full biography of Rufus Brown Bullock (1834-1907), the only elected Republican governor in Georgia history and a central figure both in the reconstruction of the state and the ascendancy of Atlanta as the premier city of the New South. Moreover, this work, which adds much revelatory material on political, social, and economic conditions in post-Civil War Georgia, constitutes the first in-depth study of the state during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age in twenty-five years Russell Duncan follows Bullock's life from his abolitionist upbringing in Albion, New York, to his move to Augusta, Georgia, on the eve of the Civil War and his subsequent role in the Southern war effort. Elected governor of Georgia in 1868, Bullock was ousted by Democratic opponents before the end of his term. Duncan chronicles Bullock's trial on charges of corruption and malfeasance, his full acquittal, and his subsequent ventures in railroading, banking, manufacturing, textiles, and insurance In one of many demonstrations of Bullock's business prowess and personal complexity, Duncan shows how he was able to serve for two terms as president of Atlanta's chamber of commerce even as he publicly rebuked New South sovereign Henry Grady for racism |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 278 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0820315575 0-8203-1557-5 |