Bricks without straw
a novel
Our rough guess is there are 112,500 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 7 hours and 30 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 15 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Author
Contributions
- Karcher, Carolyn L., 1945- - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Duke University Press, Durham [NC, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
112,500 words, Guess
Page Count
450 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100822343959
- ISBN-139780822343950
- ISBN-139780822344131
- ISBN-100822344130
- Goodreads6116842
and 6 more
- LibraryThing2930411
- Library of Congress Control Number2009001663
- OCLC Control Number294887692
- Better World Books9780822344131
- Better World Books9780822343950
- Open LibraryOL23147838M
Classifications
- DDC813/.4
- LCCPS3087 B75 2009
- LCCPS3085B75 2009
and 1 more
- LCCPS3087 .B75 2009
Description
"Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery"--Dukeupress
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Fiction
Other Editions
- Bricks without straw: a novel
Show 4 more editions
Similar Books
The clansman: an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan
by Thomas Dixon, Jr. ; illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
12h 9m read
Women's radical reconstruction: the freedmen's aid movement
Carol Faulkner.
The death of Reconstruction: race, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Heather Cox Richardson.
A perilous proposal: novel
by Michael Phillips.
Eneas Africanus
by Harry Stillwell Edwards
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!