Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862 - 1877

"Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional and presidential initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877, is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not."