Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900

A new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina after the Civil War

In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Côté Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adapt or resist changes to their way of life. Gillin accurately perceives racial violence as an attempt by white southern men to ...