{"product_id":"eli-hill-a-novel-of-reconstruction-paperback","title":"Eli Hill: A Novel of Reconstruction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Du Pre Lumpkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBruce Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJacquelyn Dowd Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Southerner\u003c\/i\u003e is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found. Lumpkin's unpublished novel \u003ci\u003eEli Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, which was discovered in Lumpkin's papers after her death, contributes to the same struggle by imaginatively re-creating a historical figure and a moment in the violent white resistance to Reconstruction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn to enslaved parents in York County, South Carolina, Elias Hill (1819-1872) learned to read and write and became a popular Baptist minister. Owing to his influence, Hill was one of many victims of a series of vicious attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. After testifying before a congressional committee that emigration was the only solution, Hill and 135 other formerly enslaved people emigrated to Liberia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLumpkin had trained as a sociologist and historian to use archival sources and data in arguing for socioeconomic change. In her autobiography, she uses the lens of an individual life, her own, to understand how racism was inculcated in white children and how they could free themselves from its grip. With \u003ci\u003eEli Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, she turns to imagination, informed by archival research, to put an African American man at the center of a story about Reconstruction. In curating this important work of historical recovery for use in the classroom, Bruce Baker and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall have included the full text of the original manuscript and an introduction that contextualizes the novel in both its historical setting and its creation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatharine Du Pre Lumpkin (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KATHARINE DU PRE LUMPKIN (1897-1988) was a sociologist and activist who studied, taught, and did research at a number of schools, including Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Mills College, and Wells College. Although she is best known for \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Southerner\u003c\/i\u003e, Lumpkin published a number of other books: \u003ci\u003eThe Family: A Study of Member Roles\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eShutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eChild Workers in America\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dorothy W. Douglas); \u003ci\u003eThe South in Progress\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation of Angelina Grimke\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an inductee to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Baker (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BRUCE BAKER is a reader in modern American history at Newcastle University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Reconstruction Means: Historical Memory in the American South\u003c\/i\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAfter Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacquelyn Dowd Hall (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JACQUELYN DOWD HALL \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis founding director of the Southern Oral History Program and the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (2003-2004) and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 1999 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLike a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World\u003c\/i\u003eand author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eSisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 278\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52628700954931,"sku":"9780820356938","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RWNzZTlaRStoRmx3Z2R0L0p1cmFEdz09.webp?v=1762113450","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/eli-hill-a-novel-of-reconstruction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}