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After slavery : race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction South / edited by Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New perspectives on the history of the South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- United States.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
- Summary:
- Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813044774
- 0813044774
- OCLC:
- 806013191
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