Murder in the State Capitol - The Biography of Lt. Col. Robert Augustus Alston (1832-1879)

Klappentext Follow the transformation of Robert Augustus Alston from a nineteenth-century slave owner and white supremacist to crusader for reform in the treatment of mostly black convicts in post-war Georgia. Following the Civil War, Alston became a cotton farmer using freedmen, practiced law, sold insurance, and then became an editor and owner of the Atlanta Herald. Zusammenfassung Follow the transformation of Robert Augustus Alston from a nineteenth-century slave owner and white supremacist to crusader for reform in the treatment of mostly black convicts in post-war Georgia. Following the Civil War! Alston became a cotton farmer using freedmen! practiced law! sold insurance! and then became an editor and owner of the Atlanta Herald.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela C Hain, Pamela C. Hain, Pamela Chase Hain
• Publisher: Mercer university press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2013
• EAN: 9780881464306
• ISBN: 978-0-88146-430-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous