A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

by Drew A. Swanson

Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146967470X
• ISBN13: 9781469674704
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"