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After Slavery
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
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- English
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About this book
Moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, racial violence throughout the region, and much more in order to provide a well-rounded portrait of the era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- After Slavery
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Slave and Citizen in the Modern World: Rethinking Emancipation in the Twenty-First Century
- 2. āErroneous and Incongruous Notions of Libertyā: Urban Unrest and the Origins of Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865ā1868
- 3. āSurrounded on All Sides by an Armed and Brutal Mobā: Newspapers, Politics, and Law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868ā1869
- 4. āIt Looks Much Like Abandoned Landā: Property and the Politics of Loyalty in Reconstruction Mississippi
- 5. Anarchy at the Circumference: Statelessness and the Reconstruction of Authority in Emancipation North Carolina
- 6. āThe Negroes Are No Longer Slavesā: Free Black Families, Free Labor, and Racial Violence in Post-Emancipation Kentucky
- 7. Ex-Slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan: Exploring the Motivations of Terrorist Violence
- 8. Drovers, Distillers, and Democrats: Economic and Political Change in Northern Greenville County, 1865ā1878
- 9. Mapping Freedomās Terrain: The Political and Productive Landscapes of Wilmington, North Carolina
- 10. Class, Factionalism, and the Radical Retreat: Black Laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865ā1900
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index