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Yazoo; Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South: A Personal Narrative (Southern Classics Series)

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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. Looking for economic opportunity for himself in addition to an opportunity to bring about a new social order within the defeated South, Albert T. Morgan leased a cotton plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi, in1865. His farming venture failed -as did his efforts to protected interracial democracy -but his decade spent in Yazoo County brought opportunities to serve in elected place of business as a constitutional delegate, state senator, and county sheriff and supervisor. The last decade also gave him an intimate working out of the pains 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 give an explanation for the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in Mississippi.

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