Freedom's Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Jefferson Cowie
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.
In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
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"Jefferson Cowie has a knack for publishing instant classics: books that change historians' conversations. This is his most extraordinary yet. With eloquence and with brilliance, he delves deep into the annals of a specific place, Barbour County, Alabama, in order to excavate the foundations of America's darkest and most enduring story: how 'freedom' became a national alibi for cruelty, inequity, and reaction. As soon as I finished reading it, I wanted to start over and absorb it all over again."—Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Jinny St. Goar
- 12/03/2025
Enlightening
So little of the history of Reconstruction was — I am embarrassed to admit, as an American history major!! - was familiar to me. The resonances with the present were clear throughout the book, long before the narrative came to Jan. 6, 2021.
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