Yazoo; Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South: A Personal Narrative - Couverture souple

Morgan, Albert T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1570033595 ISBN 13 : 9781570033599

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2000

Synopsis

Yazoo is a rare and revealing firsthand account of Reconstruction told by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform. Seeking economic opportunity for himself as well as a chance to bring about a new social order in the defeated South, Albert T. Morgan leased a cotton plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi, in1865. His farming venture failed -as did his efforts to secure interracial democracy -but his decade spent in Yazoo County brought opportunities to serve in elected office as a constitutional delegate, state senator, and county sheriff and supervisor. The decade also gave him an intimate understanding of the trials and tribulations associated with the African American freedmen's struggle for equality. In 1884, nine years after fleeing the state under threat of death, Morgan published Yazoo at his own expense to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in Mississippi.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Logsdon (1938-1999) was a scholar of the Reconstruction Era and the author of works on African American entrepreneurs, Radical Republicans, and Louisiana history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570033595
• ISBN 13: 9781570033599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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