James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black LeaderJames Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believed, had purged the land of its sins and allowed the country to realize what had always been its promise: the creation of a social and political environment in which merit, not race, mattered. Born a slave, Turner gained freedom when he was a child and received his education in clandestine St. Louis schools, later briefly attending Oberlin College. A self-taught lawyer, Turner earned a statewide reputation and wielded power far out of proportion to Missouri's relatively small black population. After working nearly a decade in Liberia, Turner never regained the prominence he had enjoyed during Reconstruction. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 8 |
CHAPTER II | 25 |
CHAPTER III | 40 |
CHAPTER IV | 57 |
CHAPTER V | 78 |
CHAPTER VI | 98 |
CHAPTER VII | 131 |
A Pyrrhic Victory | 155 |
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