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

by Albert T. Morgan

Book Overview

A grassroots history unmatched in Reconstruction literature

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033595
• ISBN13: 9781570033599
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"