{"id":1517,"date":"2016-02-22T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:27:34","slug":"understanding-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/02\/22\/understanding-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1520\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/HD_hamptonW2c.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1520\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/HD_hamptonW2c-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wade Hampton (1818-1902)\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wade Hampton (1818-1902)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many white Southerners labeled the return of &#8220;home rule&#8221; following the Radical era of Reconstruction as a period of &#8220;Redemption.&#8221; \u00a0That word, however, contained a very bitter note for anybody who believed that the aftermath of the Civil War promised equality to all and a socioeconomic revolution for the region&#8217;s dispossessed. \u00a0For southern blacks, in particular, the Redeemers represented an ominous threat, not only to their rights as freemen, but to their lives. \u00a0How far Redemption might go in undoing the reforms of Reconstruction &#8211;and how violent its advocates might be in that process&#8211; remained to be seen by the end of the 1870s. \u00a0However, it was already clear during the Centennial Year of 1876 that violence against blacks was looming. \u00a0The Hamburg Massacre in South Carolina during July 1876 offered one of the most gruesome examples. \u00a0Foner describes the wanton violence against blacks in the small town, but he leaves out a discussion of the subsequent role of<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1451\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/01\/Prince-Rivers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1451\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/01\/Prince-Rivers-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Rivers (1822-1887)\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Rivers (1822-1887)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prince Rivers, the black militia leader and local trial judge charged with investigating the aftermath of the massacre. \u00a0A new website from historian Stephen Berry (<a href=\"https:\/\/csidixie.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CSI: Dixie<\/a>) offers a vivid account of the massacre and the complicated role that Rivers tried to uphold during the proceedings afterward. \u00a0Students in History 118 should remember <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2012\/11\/08\/general-hunter-confiscates-prince-rivers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Rivers<\/a>, because he was the former contraband slave who been &#8220;discovered&#8221; by James Miller McKim (Class of 1828) and who subsequently emerged as a leader in the First South Carolina volunteers and a hero during the Civil War. \u00a0Rivers also turned out to be a symbol of the betrayal of Reconstruction&#8217;s promise. \u00a0Students should be able to explain why after reading <a href=\"https:\/\/csidixie.org\/chronicles\/hamburg-massacre\" target=\"_blank\">Berry&#8217;s narrative of\u00a0the Hamburg Massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many white Southerners labeled the return of &#8220;home rule&#8221; following the Radical era of Reconstruction as a period of &#8220;Redemption.&#8221; \u00a0That word, however, contained a very bitter note for anybody who believed that the aftermath of the Civil War promised equality to all and a socioeconomic revolution for the region&#8217;s dispossessed. \u00a0For southern blacks, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}