One kind of freedom: the economic consequences of emancipation

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Preface Preface to the new edition Acknowledgements A note to the reader 1. What did freedom mean? 2. The legacy of slavery 3. The myth of the prostrate South 4. The demise of the plantation 5. Agricultural reconstruction 6. Financial reconstruction 7. The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly 8. The trap of debt peonage 9. The roots of southern poverty Statistical appendixes Epilogue A bibliography of literature on the South after 1977 Notes Bibliography Index.