Cover -- After Slavery -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Slave and Citizen in the Modern World: Rethinking Emancipation in the Twenty-First Century -- 2. "Erroneous and Incongruous Notions of Liberty": Urban Unrest and the Origins of Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865-1868 -- 3. "Surrounded on All Sides by an Armed and Brutal Mob": Newspapers, Politics, and Law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868-1869 -- 4. "It Looks Much Like Abandoned Land": Property and the Politics of Loyalty in Reconstruction Mississippi -- 5. Anarchy at the Circumference: Statelessness and the Reconstruction of Authority in Emancipation North Carolina -- 6. "The Negroes Are No Longer Slaves": Free Black Families, Free Labor, and Racial Violence in Post-Emancipation Kentucky -- 7. Ex-Slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan: Exploring the Motivations of Terrorist Violence -- 8. Drovers, Distillers, and Democrats: Economic and Political Change in Northern Greenville County, 1865-1878 -- 9. Mapping Freedom's Terrain: The Political and Productive Landscapes of Wilmington, North Carolina -- 10. Class, Factionalism, and the Radical Retreat: Black Laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.