I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction

Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History's Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention

A “powerful and deeply moving” (LA Times) reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South, and what it cost.

The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory...