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04001aam a2200577 i 4500 001 8A05E98E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210208t20212021ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021003506 020 $a 1469663457 020 $a 9781469663456 020 $a 1469663449 020 $a 9781469663449 035 $a (OCoLC)1237650928 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCL $d OCLCO $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d YUS $d GWL $d NYP $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a E185.2 $b .B55 2021 100 1 $a Blair, William Alan, $e author. 245 14 $a The record of murders and outrages : $b racial violence and the fight over truth at the dawn of Reconstruction / $c William A. Blair. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 173 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Civil War America 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The battle for credibility -- Black lives in the record -- And the military comes -- The killing fields of 1868 -- The problem of Texas -- Proving lynching. 520 $a "After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by whites against Black men, women, and children. Leaders of the new southern governments and northern Democrats typically denied that the atrocities were happening, or they professed that the levels of violence were nothing more than typical criminal behavior. But as occupying Federal troops grew increasingly aware of and even targeted by violent assaults, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the states compile reports of 'murders and outrages' to catalog the extent of violence. The Records Relating to Murders and Outrage were assembled to prove that the reports of a peaceful South were wrong. The Freedmen's Bureau papers are one of the most utilized sources for the Reconstruction era, yet the Record of Murders and Outrages has rarely been explored in depth. In this book, William A. Blair takes the full measure of the Bureau's attempt to document and deploy hard information about the reality of the violence that Black communities endured in the wake of Emancipation. A former journalist, Blair is highly attuned to the ways this history reflects on ongoing and contemporary struggles over how trustworthy data is gathered, packaged, shared, and utilized in policymaking and daily life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands $x Records and correspondence. 610 17 $a United States. $b Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00541501 650 0 $a Freedmen $z Southern States $x Sources. $y 19th century $x Sources. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Sources. $z Southern States $x Sources. 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) $x Public opinion. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1865-1877. 650 7 $a African Americans $x Violence against. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02025838 650 7 $a Freedmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933987 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919930 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Records and correspondence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423917 655 7 $a Sources. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423900 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781469663470 830 0 $a Civil War America (Series) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020024937.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8A05E98E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search