Audio Book Description:
For the newly freed black residentsof Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property, and, atlast, control their own lives. but in the space of a day, angry whites would take back Colfax in one of the most brutal incidents of racial violence inSouthern history. In the bitter aftermath, the Tademys and the Smiths will have to deal with the wreckage, push on, and build a better life fortheir sons and daughters over the next seventy years.