Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898

by Merline Pitre

Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares, originally published in 1985, was the first book to make an in-depth examination of the cadre of African American lawmakers in Texas after the Civil War. Those few books that addressed the subject at all treated black legislators en masse and offered little or nothing about their individual histories. Early scholars tended to present isolated events of the violence and political deterrents inflicted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623494826
• ISBN13: 9781623494827
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"