Author:
Luxenberg, Steve, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Descriptionxxii, 600 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note:Taking their seats : Massachusetts, 1838/1843 -- Harlan of Kentucky : 1853/1857 -- Brown of New England : 1856/1857 -- Tourgee of Ohio : 1858/1860 -- The free people of color : New 0rleans, 1860 -- "The Harlan name" : Kentucky, 1858/1862 -- "A war of which no man can see the end" : Brown in Detroit, 1860/1864 -- "For this I am willing to die" : Tourgee on the march, 1861/1863 -- "Claim your rights" : New Orleans and Washington, 1863/1864 -- Choosing sides : Harlan in Kentucky, 1865/1871 -- "A taste for judicial life" : Brown in Detroit, 1866/1872 -- Tourgee goes South : North Carolina, 1865/1870 -- Equal but separate : New Orleans and the north, 1867/1871 -- "Is not Harlan the man?" : Kentucky and Washington, 1875/1878 -- "Uncongenial strifes" : Brown and Tourgee, 1875/1879 -- Fool's errand : north and south, 1880/1883 -- The color line sharpens : 1883/1888 -- "The Negro question" : Mayville, Washington, and New Orleans, 1889/1890 -- "On behalf of 7,999,999 of my race" : New Orleans, Mayville, Detroit, and Washington, 1890/1891 -- Arrest : Mayville and New Orleans, 1892/1893 -- "You are fighting a great battle" : Washington, Mayville, and New Orleans, 1893/1895 -- In the nature of things : March, April, May 1896 -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-579) and index.
Note:A New York Times Editors' Choice A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.