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Buried in the Bitter Waters
Elliot Jaspin
The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
Basic Books
March 2007
On Sale: March 5, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0465036368
EAN: 9780465036363
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the secret
history of racial cleansing in America "Leave now, or die!"
From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the
mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words
like these have echoed through more than a century of
American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a
hurricane, but a very unnatural disaster--a manmade wave of
racial cleansing that purged black populations from counties
across the nation. We have long known about horrific episodes of lynching in
the South, but the story of widespread racial cleansingabove
and below the Mason-Dixon line--has remained almost entirely
unknown. Time after time, in the period between
Reconstruction and the 1920s, whites banded together to
drive out the blacks in their midst. They burned and killed
indiscriminately and drove thousands from their homes,
sweeping entire counties clear of blacks to make them
racially "pure." The expulsions were swift-in many cases, it
took no more than twenty-four hours to eliminate an entire
African-American population. Shockingly, these areas remain
virtually all-white to this day. Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives
and census records, Buried in the Bitter Waters provides
irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again
and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the
geography of race. In this groundbreaking book, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin has rewritten
American history as we know it.
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