After slavery : race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction South

Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.

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Contributors: Baker, Bruce E., 1971-, Kelly, Brian, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South
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Table of Contents:
  • Slave and citizen in the modern world: rethinking emancipation in the twenty-first century / Thomas C. Holt
  • "Erroneous and incongruous notions of liberty": urban unrest and the origins of radical reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865-1868 / James Illingworth
  • "Surrounded on all sides by an armed and brutal mob": newspapers, politics, and law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868-1869 / Jonathan M. Bryant
  • "It looks much like abandoned land": property and the politics of loyalty in reconstruction Mississippi / Erik Mathisen
  • Anarchy at the circumference: statelessness and the reconstruction of authority in emancipation North Carolina / Gregory P. Downs
  • "The negroes are no longer slaves": free black families, free labor, and racial violence in post-emancipation Kentucky / J. Michael Rhyne
  • Ex-slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan: exploring the motivations of terrorist violence / Michael W. Fitzgerald
  • Drovers, distillers, and democrats: economic and political change in Northern Greenville County, 1865- / Bruce E. Baker
  • Mapping freedom's terrain: the political and productive landscapes of Wilmington, North Carolina / Susan Eva O'Donovan
  • Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / Brian Kelly.