Jefferson Cowie

Mar 10, 2023

Freedom's Dominion

A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Basic Books 2022

Jefferson Cowie discusses his book Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books, 2022), beginning with the book’s origin story, and then tracing the use of "freedom" to dominate others in Barbour County, Alabama, from Indian Removal in the 1830s through the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

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