{"product_id":"blood-bone-truth-and-reconciliation-in-a-southern-town-9781611170481","title":"Blood \u0026 Bone: Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh perspective on the Orangeburg Massacre and its legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men--Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith--were killed, and twenty-seven other protestors were injured. Preceding the infamous events at Kent State University by more than two years, the Orangeburg Massacre, as it came to be known, was one of the first violent civil rights confrontations on an American college campus. The patrolmen involved were exonerated while victims and their families were left still seeking justice. To this day the community of Orangeburg endeavors to find resolution and reconciliation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlood and Bone, \u003c\/i\u003eOrangeburg native Jack Shuler offers a multifaceted examination of the massacre and its aftermath, uncovering a richer history than the one he learned as a white youth growing up in Orangeburg. Shuler focuses on why events unfolded and escalated as they did and on the ramifications that still haunt the community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the violence of the massacre and its contentious legacy, Orangeburg is a community of people living and working together. Shuler tells their fascinating stories and pays close attention to the ways in which the region is shaping a new narrative on its own, despite the lack of any official reexamination of the massacre. He also explores his own efforts to understand the tragedy in the context of Orangeburg's history of violence. His native connections gave him access to individuals, black and white, who have previously not spoken out publicly. \u003ci\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground as an investigation of the massacre and also as a reflection by a proud Orangeburg native on the meanings of Southern community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShuler concludes that the history of race and violence in Orangeburg mirrors the history of race relations in the United States--a murky and contested narrative, complicated by the emotions and motivations of those who have shaped the story and of those who have refused to close the book on it. Orangeburg, like the rest of the nation, carries the historical burdens of slavery, war, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and civil rights. \u003ci\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the ways in which historical memory affects the lives of ordinary Americans. Shuler explores how they remember the Orangeburg Massacre, what its meaning holds for them now, and what it means for the future of the South and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Shuler\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and the author of \u003ci\u003eCalling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights.\u003c\/i\u003e Shuler's criticism, interviews, reviews, and poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eColumbia Journal of American Studies, Southern Studies, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eSouth Carolina Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359910760722,"sku":"9781611170481","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5d650fa-5c9c-412a-89d6-e54ae7598156.jpg?v=1728359017","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-bone-truth-and-reconciliation-in-a-southern-town-9781611170481","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}