| 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. |
