Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 Slavery, Plantation Life, and Debt in Tennessee and Mississippi The Example of Andrew Jackson Donelson Mark R. Cheathem 3
2 Patriots or Traitors Unionists in Civil War Mississippi Thomas D. Cockrell 31
3 The African American Experience in Louisiana's Lafourche Region during the Civil War Stephen S. Michot 55
4 Union Soldiers React to Slaves, Slavery, Freedmen, and Colored U.S. Troops during the Vicksburg Campaign Michael B. Ballard 69
5 Town and Sword Black Boxers at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916-1922 Horace Nash 89
6 Black Soldiers and the CCC at Shiloh National Military Park Timothy B. Smith 115
7 Challenging the Dunning Orthodoxy The Reconstruction Revisionism of Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody James Scott Humphreys 129
8 Confronting Race in American History Edna Greene Medford 147
Notes on Contributors 161
Index 163