The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

by Daniel Brook

Book Overview

In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393247449
• ISBN13: 9780393247442
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"