After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

List of Contributors

Contributors Bruce E. Baker is lecturer on American history at Newcastle University. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South and This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871– 1947 and a number of articles on topicsrelatingto the historyofthe American South. He is co-editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History. JonathanM.Bryantisassociate professor of historyatGeorgia SouthernUniversity . He has been fascinated by the nineteenth-century American South since childhood. He is currently working on the story of the slave ship Antelope and the illegal slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World. Gregory P. Downs is associate professor of history at City College of New York (CUNY) and the author of Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861–1908. He is currently at work on a study of the transition from Civil War to Reconstruction. His collection of short stories, Spit Baths, won the Flannery O’Connor Award. Michael W. Fitzgerald earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently professor of history at St. Olaf College. He authored The Union League Movement in the Deep South, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, and Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South. He is currently finishing a full-scale history of Alabama after the Civil War. Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and among the most prominent historians of this generation. He has published widely and is a distinguished scholar of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863– 1877—awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Parkman Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, among others—remains among the most influential studies in modern American historiography. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, won the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Lincoln Prize. Thomas C. Holt, the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago, is a distinguished scholar of U.S. Reconstruction and a pioneer in the comparative study of slave emancipation in the Atlantic World. He is the author of Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832– 1938, and Children of Fire: A History of African Americans, and co-author of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. James Illingworth was born in Sheffield, U.K., and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently working toward a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His dissertation , Revolution in the Urban South: New Orleans, 1830–1877, examines the actions and experiences of the urban popular classes during the Civil War period. Brian Kelly is director of the After Slavery Project and a reader in U.S. history at Queen’s University Belfast. His first book, Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908–21, won a number of awards, including the Frances Butler Simkins and the H. L. Mitchell Prizes from the Southern Historical Association. He has published widely on labor and race and is completing a study of black political mobilization in Reconstruction South Carolina. ErikMathisenislecturerinAmericanstudiesattheUniversityofPortsmouth in the United Kingdom. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he is currently working on a book entitled American Crucible: Citizens, Slaves, and the Politics of Loyalty in Civil War America. Susan Eva O’Donovan is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. She is a former editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project ; coeditor of the documentary history Land and Labor, 1865; and author of 256 Contributors Becoming Free in the Cotton South, which was awarded the James A. Rawley Prize by the Organization of American Historians. With Bruce E. Baker she is co-editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History. J. Michael Rhyne is associate professor of history at Urbana University in Ohio. He received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where he completed a dissertation under Wayne K. Durrill’s direction that focused on the problem of freedom in the Bluegrass Region. He has published articles in Ohio Valley History, American Nineteenth Century History, and the Journal of Social History. Contributors 257 ...