The Life and Death of Gus Reed : a Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

By:

Bahde, Thomas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the MidwestPublication details: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780821444948
0821444948

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life and Death of Gus Reed : A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction.DDC classification:

305.896/073077309034 305.896073077309034

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F549.S7 B34 2014

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Contents:

Introduction; Georgia Roots; Illinois in Wartime; Black Springfield; A White Man's Country; The Underworld; The Penitentiary; Springfield, 1908; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state's courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney-and brother of Abraham Lincoln's former law partner-a crime for which he was convicted and sent.

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Introduction; Georgia Roots; Illinois in Wartime; Black Springfield; A White Man's Country; The Underworld; The Penitentiary; Springfield, 1908; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state's courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney-and brother of Abraham Lincoln's former law partner-a crime for which he was convicted and sent.

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