Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Patrick Phillips

314 pages first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history race reflective slow-paced

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Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecrop...

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