After Slavery

Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

Bruce E. Baker, Brian Kelly

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813048376
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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.

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. “Erroneous and Incongruous Notions of Liberty”: Urban Unrest and the Origins of Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865–1868
• 3. “Surrounded on All Sides by an Armed and Brutal Mob”: Newspapers, Politics, and Law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868–1869
• 4. “It Looks Much Like Abandoned Land”: 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. “The Negroes Are No Longer Slaves”: 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, 1865–1878
• 9. Mapping Freedom’s 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, 1865–1900
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index