New Books in History

New Books in History


Patrick Phillips, “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America” (W.W. Norton, 2016)

January 16, 2017

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. In 1912, three young black laborers were accused ofâ¦