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After the War: A Southern Tour

by Whitelaw Reid

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Why, and How the Trip Was Made
  3. 3Chapter II — A School of Unadulterated Negroes — An Ancient Virgini…
  4. 4Chapter III — “Beauties of the Sea” — First Views of Cracker Unionism
  5. 5Chapter IV — Newbern and Beaufort — Black and White
  6. 6Chapter V — Fort Fisher
  7. 7Chapter VI — Wilmington — Unionism — Blockade Running — Destitution…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Charleston Harbor — Could Sumter Have Been Stormed —…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Charleston, Now and Four Years Ago
  10. 10Chapter IX — “Unionism” — Black and White, in Charleston and Throug…
  11. 11Chapter X — Port Royal and Beaufort
  12. 12Chapter XI — Among the Sea Islanders
  13. 13Chapter XII — Business, Speculation and Progress Among the Sea Isla…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Pulaski — Savannah — Bonaventure
  15. 15Chapter XIV — White and Black Georgians — The Savannah Standard of…
  16. 16Chapter XV — Florida Towns and Country — A Florida Senator
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Orange Groves and an Ancient Village — The Oldest Tow…
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Dungeness, and the “Greatest of the Lees” — Cultivat…
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Southern “Ultima Thule” of the United States
  20. 20Chapter XIX — A Remarkable Negro Story — One of the Strange Possibi…
  21. 21Chapter XX — Among the Cubans — The Impending Downfall of Cuban Sla…
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Scenes in Mobile — The Cotton Swindles
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Mobile Loyalists and Reconstructionists — Black and…
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — New Orleans and New Orleans Notabilities
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Beginning Reaction — Northern Emigrants and New…
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Among the Negro Schools
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Talks With the Citizens, White and Black
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — A Free-labor Sugar Plantation
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The “Jeff. Davis Cotton Plantation”
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Vicksburg to Louisville
  31. 31Chapter XXX — General Aspects of the South at the Close of the War
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Mid-summer at the Capitol
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Richmond, After Six Months of Yankee Rule
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Lynchburg — The Interior of Virginia
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Knoxville and the Mountaineers — Glimpses of Southe…
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Atlanta — Georgia Phases of Rebel and Union Talk
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Montgomery — The Lowest Phase of Negro Character —…
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — Selma — Government Armories — Talks Among the Negroes
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — Mississippi Tavern Talks on National Politics — S…
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Mobile Temper and Trade — Inducements of Alabama to…
  41. 41Chapter XL — Phases of Public Sentiment in New Orleans Before Congr…
  42. 42Chapter XLI — Cotton Speculations — Temper of the Mississippians
  43. 43Chapter XLII — Memphis — Out From the Reconstructed
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Congress Takes Charge of Reconstruction
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — Southern Feeling After the Meeting of Congress
  46. 46Chapter XLV — Political and Business Complications in the South-west
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — The Sugar and Rice Culture in Louisiana — Profits an…
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — A Cotton Plantation — Work, Workmen, Wages, Expense…
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Among the Cotton Plantations — Rations and Ways of…
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — Plantation Negroes — Incidents and Characteristics
  51. 51Chapter L — Further Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character
  52. 52Chapter LI — Payments, Strikes, and Other Illustrations of Plantati…
  53. 53Chapter LII — Labor Experiments and Prospects
  54. 54Chapter LIII — Concluding Suggestions
  55. 55Appendix

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