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After the Civil War, most Georgians faced a world that had been transformed against their will. The enlightened wished to create what Henry Grady called a “New South” of political reconciliation, economic development and racial justice. Others, refusing to accept the new order and facing the collapse of the region’s agricultural system, wanted to put the “Negro back in his place.” Some thirty documents or groups of documents–letters, journals, newspaper reports–describe the mingled currents of hope and hate that created social problems that have not yet been solved.
Book Five in the Documentary History of Georgia series.
Standing Upon the Mouth of a Volcano, New South Georgia, documentary history, Mills Lane, history, Georgia, Reconstruction, Georgia history, American history, Southern history, African-American history, letters, journals, documents, recollections, Georgia Historical Society, racial justice, racism, bigotry, prejudice, blacks, whites, freedmen, Ku Klux Klan, cotton ;mills, race riots, riots, the color line, segregation, Henry Grady, hate, America, Rufus Bullock, voting rights, Fifteenth Amendment, emancipation, enfranchisement, plantations, industrial revolution, Atlanta, Milledgeville, Savannah, agricultural reform, poverty, defeat, sharecropping, farming, farmers, populists, Tom Watson, Democrats, Republicans, Negro, Negroes, Freedmen’s Bureau, southern, The South, Augusta, colored, chain gangs, lynchings, Panic of 1893, civil rights, Ogeechee Insurrection, Counter-Reconstruction, demagogues, Atlanta Constitution, reconciliation, justice, recovery, Georgia cracker,
crackers, mob, segregation laws, Ray Stannard Baker, R.S. Baker, William E.B. DuBois, yellow journalism, Following the Color Line
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