Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South

Contents

Contents Preface: Understanding the South vii Introduction 1 William A. Link and David Brown Part I: Citizenship in an Enslaved Society 1. “Ter Show Yo’ de Value of Slaves”: The Pricing of Human Property 21 Daina Ramey Berry 2. Rewriting the Free Negro Past: Joseph Lumpkin, Proslavery Ideology, and Citizenship in Antebellum Georgia 41 Watson Jennison 3. Free People of Color, Expulsion, and Enslavement in the Antebellum South 64 Emily West 4. Citizenship, Democracy, and the Structure of Politics in the Old South: John Calhoun’s Conundrum 84 David Brown Part II: Reconstructing Citizenship 5. Personal Reconstructions: Confederates as Citizens in the Post–Civil War South 111 James J. Broomall 6. Citizenship and Racial Order in Post–Civil War Atlanta 134 William A. Link 7. The Antithesis of Union Men and Confederate Rebels: Loyal Citizenship in the Post–Civil War South 150 Susanna Michele Lee Part III: Reimagining Citizenship 8. Dark Satanic Fields: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Industrialization, and the U.S. Imperial Imaginary 173 Jennifer Rae Greeson 9. Fables of the Reconstruction: The Citizen as Character 201 Scott Romine 10. White Supremacy and the Question of Black Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South 223 Daryl Michael Scott 11. Tolentino, Cable, and Tourgée Confront the New South and the New Imperialism 247 Peter Schmidt Epilogue: Place as Everywhere: On Globalizing the American South 271 Michael O’Brien List of Contributors 291 Index 295 ...