Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy

Table of contents

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• Title Page ii
• Contents vii
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• Introduction 3
• Notes 11
• We Have Taken a City A Centennial Essay 15
• Notes 39
• Abraham H. Galloway Wilmington's Lost Prophet and the Rise of Black Radicalism in the American South 43
• Notes 65
• Murder, Memory, and the Flight of the Incubus 73
• Notes 90
• The Two Faces of Domination in North Carolina, 1800-1898 95
• Notes 108
• Captives of Wilmington The Riot and Historical Memories of Political Conflict, 1865-1898 113
• Notes 134

• Title Page ii
• Contents vii
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• Introduction 3
• Notes 11
• We Have Taken a City A Centennial Essay 15
• Notes 39
• Abraham H. Galloway Wilmington's Lost Prophet and the Rise of Black Radicalism in the American South 43
• Notes 65
• Murder, Memory, and the Flight of the Incubus 73
• Notes 90
• The Two Faces of Domination in North Carolina, 1800-1898 95
• Notes 108
• Captives of Wilmington The Riot and Historical Memories of Political Conflict, 1865-1898 113
• Notes 134
• Whites Love, Hate, Rape, Lynching Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Gender Politics of Racial Violence 143
• Notes 161
• Class, Race, and Power in the New South Racial Violence and the Delusions of White Supremacy 163
• Notes 179
• Fear, Hope, and Struggle Recasting Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow 185
• Notes 201
• Race, Rhetoric, and Revolution 207
• Notes 222
• Violence, Man-hood, and Black Heroism The Wilmington Riot in Two Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels 225
• Notes 248
• Wars for Democracy African American Militancy and Interracial Violence in North Carolina during World War II 253
• Notes 271
• Epilogue from Greensboro, North Carolina Race and the Possibilities of American Democracy 277
• Acknowledgments 287
• Contributors 289
• Index 291