Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 : Reconstruction, Republicanism, and Race

Suggested Readings

  • Abbott, Richard H. "The Republican Party Press in Reconstruction Georgia, 1867-1874" The Journal of Southern History 61, No. 4 (1995) 725-760.

  • Bartley , Numan V. The Creation of Modern Georgia. 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

  • Bennett, Lerone Jr. Black Power U.S.A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1967.

  • Bentley, George R. A History of the Freedmen's Bureau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1955.

  • Butler, Joshua William. (2009). “‘Almost Too Terrible to Believe’: The Camilla, Georgia, Race Riot and Massacre, September 1868” (MA thesis). Retrieved from https://vtext.valdosta.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10428/1130/butler-joshua-w_almost-too-terrible-to-believe_history_thesis_2012.pdf

  • Cimbala, Paul. Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

  • Coleman, Kenneth. Georgia History in Outline. Rev. ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.

  • Conway, Alan. The Reconstruction of Georgia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1966.

  • Cox, La Wanda and John H., eds. Reconstruction the Negro and the New South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.

  • Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

  • Duncan, Russel. Freedom’s Shore. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

  • Foner, Eric. Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

  • Foner, Eric The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

  • Formwalt, Lee W. "The Camilla Massacre of 1868: Racial Violence as Political Propaganda." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 71, No. 3 (1987): 400-426.

  • Formwalt, Lee W. "Petitioning Congress for Protection: A Black View of Reconstruction at the Local Level." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 73, No. 2 (1989): 305-322.

  • Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was In the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. Edited with a foreword by Jonathan Grant. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

  • Johnson, Nicholas. Negroes and The Gun: the black tradition of arms. Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 2014.

  • Kousser, J. Morgan and James M. McPherson, eds. Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  • Lane, Mills, ed. Standing Upon the Mouth of a Volcano: New South Georgia, A Documentary History. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1993.

  • Mcdonald, Laughlin. A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

  • McFeely, William S. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.

  • Nathans, Elizabeth Studley Losing the peace; Georgia Republicans and Reconstruction, 1865-1871. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.

  • Nieman, Donald G., ed. The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Freedom. Introduction by Donald G. Nieman. African American life in the Post-Emancipation South v. 2. New York : Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994.

  • O'Donovan, Susan E. "Philip Joiner, Black Republican Leader," Journal of Southwest Georgia History 4 (1986): 56-71.

  • Rable, George C. But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

  • Rapport, Sara “The Freedmen’s Bureau as a Legal Agent for Black Men and Women in Georgia: 1865-1868.” The Georgia Historical quarterly Vol. 73, No. 1 (1989): 26-53.

  • Spence, Margaret and Anna M. Fleming. History of Mitchell County. [1976?].

  • Thompson, Clara Mildred. Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872. 1915. Introduction by William Bailey Willisford. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1971.