Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

by Patrick Phillips

Book Overview

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 sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393293017
• ISBN13: 9780393293012
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"