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

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by Albert Talmon Morgan (Author), Joseph Logsdon (Introduction by), A. T. Morgan (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 560
Dimensions: 1.52 x 8.4 x 5.44 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 30, 2011

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