Blood at the Root
Author | Patrick Phillips |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction, race and ethnicity in the United States, History |
Published | 2016 |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 302[1] |
ISBN | 978-0-393-29301-2 |
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Patrick Phillips investigating the 1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County, Georgia.[1][2][3]
Overview[]
In Forsyth County, Georgia, September 1912, three young black laborers were accused of murdering and raping a white girl. What followed was bands of white "night riders" that drove all 1,098 black citizens out of the county via arson and terror. The title Blood at the Root comes from the song Strange Fruit about the lynchings of African Americans in the South.[4]
Summary[]
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Introduction - Law of the Land[]
On September 10, 1912 in Forsyth County, Georgia three young black people and were suspected because of a white girl named Mae Crow had been left in the woods along the Chattahoochee River, in the Appalachian foothills north of Atlanta and been left beaten and was left there to die. They were to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. The author Patrick Phillips goes on to talk about how all of Forsyth believed in racial purity being their birthright.
Chapter 1 - The Scream[]
On September 5, 1912 Ellen Grice had let out a scream at night, it is not know why Grice would let out a scream, but then newspapers started talking about how a black rapist went through Grice's window.
Chapter 2 -Riot, Rout, Tumult[]
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Chapter 3 - The Missing Girl[]
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Chapter 4 - And The Mob Came On[]
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Chapter 5 - A Straw in the Whirlwind[]
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Chapter 6 - The Devil's Own Horses[]
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Chapter 7 - The Majesty of the Law[]
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Chapter 8 - Fastening the Noose[]
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Chapter 9 - We Condemn this Conduct[]
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Chapter 10 - Crush the thing in its Infancy[]
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Chapter 11 - The Scaffold[]
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Chapter 12 - When they were Slaves[]
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Chapter 13 - Driven to the Cook Stoves[]
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Chapter 14 - Exile, 1915-1920[]
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Chapter 15 - Erasure, 1920-1970[]
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Chapter 16 - The Attempted Murder of Miguel Marcelli[]
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Chapter 17 - The Brotherhood March, 1987[]
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Chapter 18 - Silence is Consent[]
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Epilogue - A Pack of Wild Dogs[]
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References[]
- ^ a b Fresh Air transcript (September 15, 2016). "The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga". npr.org. NPR.
- ^ Phillips, Patrick (August 26, 2016). "Blood at the Root (book excerpt)". MyAJC. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips. Norton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ^ Anderson, Carol (2016-09-28). "American Apartheid: A Georgia County Drove Out All Its Black Citizens in 1912". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
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External links[]
- 2016 non-fiction books
- English-language books
- Books about race and ethnicity
- American non-fiction books
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