This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case stud

"This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays offer a counterpoint to the s

First published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Drawing on a va

In the last years of the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, cutting a 60-mile wide swath

In the wake of recent successes in South Africa and New Zealand, new models for reparations have recently found traction in a number of American cities and stat