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Article: In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. By Joseph A. Ranney. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2006. Pp. x, 199. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-98972-0.)
In this succinct treatise on southern law and judicial culture during Reconstruction, attorney Joseph A. Ranney makes the innovative argument that conservative southern judges played important roles in facilitating national reconciliation and in preserving basic civil rights for African Americans.
Ranney maintains that conservative jurists in the South, even those who fought for the Confederacy and held deep animus for African Americans, were part of a national ...