[AGL] Jackson article

[Gerry]

In Texas when the war was over the Black population wandered along the roads
in large groups, not knowing what to do or where to go. The rumor was that
the feds would be giving each family 40 acres and a mule but this was just a
rumor. They were shot, whipped, run over and otherwise treated with devilish
malice. Of all the moments of Texas history this is perhaps the sorriest. If
there were among the Whites courageous abolitionists you can be assured that
were a very very small minority who had little influence over our
distinguished ancestors.

Jack was no slouch as a historian but T.R. Fehrenbach was a much better
writer.
G



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From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Jackson article


Try the complete 3 vol set by Shelby Foote, arguably the best of the
historians of the War Between the States. Not all Southerners were
racist, some were among the most courageous of the abolitionists—both
in secret and public speaking.  mm

On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> Jon and Kathy,

>

> Thanks for forwarding the article on Jaxon. I for 1 am going to make a

> more

> serious effort to track down Jaxon's various books, especially the 1

> about

> post-Civil War Reconstruction so i can see what the fuss was about. The

> notion of writing from the viewpoint and in sympathy with racist

> southerners

> is an odd 1; short of actually reading the book it seems impossible to

> imagine it.

>

> Neither the UT library nor the Austin public library have any of these

> books

> (i looked for them after the memorial last summer) but they should be

> available by Interlibrary Loan.

>

> Mike

>

>

>