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100 1 $aDuncan, Russell.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85265744
245 10 $aEntrepreneur for equality :$bGovernor Rufus Bullock, commerce, and race in post-Civil War Georgia /$cRussell Duncan.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9403
300 $axii, 278 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-263) and index.
520 $aThis is the first full biography of Rufus Brown Bullock (1834-1907), the only elected Republican governor in Georgia history and a central figure both in the reconstruction of the state and the ascendancy of Atlanta as the premier city of the New South. Moreover, this work, which adds much revelatory material on political, social, and economic conditions in post-Civil War Georgia, constitutes the first in-depth study of the state during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age in twenty-five years.
520 8 $aRussell Duncan follows Bullock's life from his abolitionist upbringing in Albion, New York, to his move to Augusta, Georgia, on the eve of the Civil War and his subsequent role in the Southern war effort. Elected governor of Georgia in 1868, Bullock was ousted by Democratic opponents before the end of his term. Duncan chronicles Bullock's trial on charges of corruption and malfeasance, his full acquittal, and his subsequent ventures in railroading, banking, manufacturing, textiles, and insurance.
520 8 $aIn one of many demonstrations of Bullock's business prowess and personal complexity, Duncan shows how he was able to serve for two terms as president of Atlanta's chamber of commerce even as he publicly rebuked New South sovereign Henry Grady for racism.
520 8 $aThe core of the book is a reevaluation of Bullock's personal character, gubernatorial administration, and business affairs. Offering new explanations of the most controversial points in Bullock's career, Duncan examines his Radical Republican views on racial and economic opportunity, his attempts to stimulate Georgia's devastated economy by expanding its rail system, and his many clashes with militant Democratic party reactionaries. At heart, says Duncan, Bullock was a consummate businessman.
520 8 $aIf, as governor, he formed unseemly alliances and overstepped his powers, there is much to show that personal gain was not a compelling motive. Further, Bullock's early views on racism - on its utter impracticality - stemmed from his unwavering belief in entrepreneurship and free labor. If his advocacy of racial equality - which paralleled the "separate but equal" stance of his friend Booker T. Washington - had pragmatic underpinnings, Duncan argues, it did acquire a strong moral component. Bullock genuinely sought to extend justice, opportunity, and prosperity to black citizens.
520 8 $aHe consistently upheld their rights at great personal risk and continually badgered an unresponsive Republican regime in Washington, D.C., to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.
520 8 $aWithout minimizing the greed and malevolence that pervaded Georgia in Bullock's time, Duncan, to a great degree, exculpates the man himself. Bringing us much closer to Bullock as be was known by New South proponents, Duncan shows him to be an honest broker for change in a time when the rhetoric of the Lost Cause placed a higher emphasis on social order.
600 10 $aBullock, Rufus B.$q(Rufus Brown),$d1834-1907.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88071932
650 0 $aGovernors$zGeorgia$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008118348
650 0 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$zGeorgia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110546
651 0 $aGeorgia$xPolitics and government$y1865-1950.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054231
651 0 $aGeorgia$xRace relations.
852 00 $bglx$hF291.B93$iD86 1994