Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississppi Delta after the Civil War

The Virginia Quarterly Review | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

John Willis examines the "forgotten time," the several decades after the Civil War during which blacks achieved economic success in the Mississippi Delta. Whites returned home after the war and struggled to reconstruct the plantation without slavery. Economically beset, these planters reluctantly sold wild back country lands to freed people. The "New South frontier" represented the "promised land" for many freed people. As the black back country farmers grew in economic and political strength, they came into conflict with their former masters. Improved by the labors of blacks, back country ...

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