The life and death of Gus Reed a story of race and justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
"Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancip...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Athens
Ohio Univ. Press
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest
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Reed, Augustus,
> Reed, Augustus
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Geschichte 1865-1878
> HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
> HISTORY / United States / General
> HISTORY / General
> Geschichte
> Schwarze. USA
> Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865)
> African Americans
> Freedmen
> African American prisoners
> Crimes against
> Legal status, laws, etc.
> Discrimination in criminal justice administration
> History
> Racism
> Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
> Recht
> Rassismus
> Ethnische Beziehungen
> Reconstruction
> USA
> Springfield (Ill.)
> Race relations
> Illinois
> Biografie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and Black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state's courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney...and brother of Abraham Lincoln's former law partner...a crime for which he was convicted and sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary. Reed died at the penitentiary in 1878, shackled to the door of his cell for days with a gag strapped in his mouth. An investigation established that two guards were responsible for the prisoner's death, but neither they nor the prison warden suffered any penalty. The guards were dismissed, the investigation was closed, and Reed was forgotten. Gus Reed's story connects the political and legal cultures of white supremacy, Black migration and Black communities, the Midwest's experience with the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the resurgence of nationwide opposition to African American civil rights in the late nineteenth century. These experiences shaped a nation with deep and unresolved misgivings about race, as well as distinctive and conflicting ideas about justice and how to achieve it".. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 226 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780821421048 978-0-8214-2104-8 9780821421055 978-0-8214-2105-5 |