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

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

Logsdon, Joseph
Morgan, Albert Talmon
Morgan, A. T.

Paperback

Series: Southern Classics

Biographies General19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1570033595
ISBN13: 9781570033599
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Jul 1 2000
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.52 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.

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