| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Hurrah for Hampton! Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction. By Edmund L. Drago. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. xviii, 158 pp. $32.00, isbn 1-55728-541-1.)

Edmund L. Drago's Hurrah for Hampton! is an original contribution to Reconstruction scholarship, but more as a harbinger than as the final word. So far as I can tell, this is the first significant study of African American conservatives during Reconstruction. That makes this exploration of the Redeemers' victory in South Carolina worthy of notice. 1

This work is not really a monograph. Over half this short book consists of primary sources, culled from the WPA (Works Progress Administration) narratives and congressional hearings, providing African American accounts of participation in Wade Hampton's campaign for governor in 1876. Despite the overt racism of many of his Democratic supporters, Hampton himself sought some biracial support, which was perhaps an indication of the relative racial moderation that would characterize his administration. He gathered a following of disaffected black Republicans, most notably the black nationalist leader Martin Delany. The focus of Drago's work, however, is participation in Hampton's paramilitary force, the Red Shirts. . . .

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