Harvesting Freedom African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina

Subjects:

• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies
• History » American Civil War & Reconstruction History
• Science » Agriculture

Reviews:

• [A] lively read and should be purchased by all libraries with collections on African American history and Reconstruction. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice December 2004
• Demonstrating solid research and sound conclusions Harvesting Freedom makes an important contribution to the scholarship concerning the African American quest for land in Civil War- and Reconstruction-era South Carolina....[t]his fine work clearly illustrates how blacks on the Sea Islands marched to the beat of a different drummer.
  —The South Carolina Historical Magazine April 2006
• [L]ocal illustration of freedpeoples' fitness for freedom constitutes the historical significance ofHarvesting Freedom for Reconstruction scholarship....[v]ery well argued, organized, and documented.
  —Civil War Book Review Winter 2005

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Historical Growth of a Black Region
• The Port Royal Experiment
• "Free Labor" and Land Sale
• The AFIC, Preemption Reversal, and Second Land Sales
• The Promise of Sherman Reservation
• African American Politicization
• An African American Yeoman Community--The Case of St. Helena Island--
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Index