Volume 45, Number 10 · June 11, 1998
The Scripture of Utopia
By Patricia Storace
Paradise
by Toni Morrison
Knopf, 318 pp., $25.00
In 1880, the United States Senate published a three-volume report of the findings of its select committee on black migration from the South, the Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States. The report, which drew on eyewitness accounts by African-Americans during the post-Reconstruction period, a time in which a US Marshal described Southern blacks as 'politically in a state of siege,' records the systematic destruction of the full citizenship they had achieved as a result of the Civil War, the erosion of the expectations promised by emancipation.
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