Jefferson Cowie
Mar 10, 2023Freedom'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.
This episode was produced for "Working History," the podcast of the Southern Labor Studies Association.