“This book is a unique study of race and racism across two centuries in the hinterland of the upper South. Its implications are at once depressingly familiar

Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era af

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than