Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White SupremacyThrough the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847 1918), South Carolina's self styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow. As an anti Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina governor, and U. S. senator, Tillman offered a vision of reform that was proudly white supremacist. In the name of white male militance, productivity,