Freedom's Dominion A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie
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epub | 32.65 MB | English | Isbn: B09TZXZR56 | Author: Jefferson Cowie | Year: 2022
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A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.
In Freedom's Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom...
Category:Demacy, Civil Rights & Liberties, Black & African American History
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