Book jacket image for I Saw Death Coming by Kidada E. Williams

Bloomsbury

9781635576634

STARRED REVIEW

I Saw Death Coming

Kidada E. Williams demonstrates that the progress of the post-Civil War Reconstruction was hampered by a not-so-secret war against Black citizens.

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Review of ‘I Saw Death Coming’

You may have learned in high school that the post-Civil War Reconstruction was an inevitable failure. In her latest book, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, historian Kidada E. Williams demonstrates that, far from dying a natural death, Reconstruction was destroyed in a not-so-secret war waged…

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