| HB-232176-16 | Research Programs: Awards for Faculty | Bertis Deon English | Civil Wars and Civil Beings: Societal Construction, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction in Perry County, Alabama, 1860-75 | 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016 | $25,200.00 | Bertis | Deon | English | | | | Alabama State University | Montgomery | AL | 36104-5732 | USA | 2015 | African American History | Awards for Faculty | Research Programs | 25200 | 0 | 25200 | 0 | Writing and research toward the publication of a book about racial cooperation in Reconstruction-era Perry County, Alabama.
"Civil Wars and Civil Beings" is a scholarly book manuscript about Perry County, Alabama, during the Civil War era. Reconstruction is foremost. Unlike neighboring places in the Black Belt, one of the South’s most violent areas during Reconstruction, Perry County experienced few major economic, political, or racial clashes following Confederate defeat. Nostalgic whites threatened several activist blacks and white Republicans in Perry, but only a handful of individuals were hanged, maimed, shot, whipped, or killed in the county due to prejudice. Instead, whites and blacks in Perry usually developed the types of relationships and institutions that helped African Americans enjoy citizenship. This occurrence was uncharacteristic for Alabama and the remainder of the South from 1865 through 1874, the orthodox years of Alabama Reconstruction. |