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After the War: A Southern Tour. May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866

Whitelaw Reid · Travel_Writing · 58 章

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After the War: A Southern Tour. MAY 1, 1865, TO MAY 1, 1866.PREFACE.CONTENTS.CHAPTER I. Why, and How the Trip was Made.CHAPTER II. A School of Unadulterated Negroes—An Ancient Virginia Town under the Dispensation of Sutlers.CHAPTER III. “Beauties of the Sea”—First Views of Cracker Unionism.CHAPTER IV. Newbern and Beaufort—Black and White.CHAPTER V. Fort Fisher.CHAPTER VI. Wilmington—Unionism—Blockade Running—Destitution—Negro Talk—Land Sales.CHAPTER VII. Charleston Harbor—Could Sumter have been Stormed—Negroes and Poor Whites.CHAPTER VIII. Charleston, Now and Four Years Ago.CHAPTER IX. “Unionism”—Black and White, in Charleston and Through South Carolina.CHAPTER X. Port Royal and Beaufort.CHAPTER XI. Among the Sea Islanders.Chapter 15 CHAPTER XII. Business, Speculation and Progress Among the Sea Island Negroes.CHAPTER XIII. Pulaski—Savannah—Bonaventure.CHAPTER XIV. White and Black Georgians—The Savannah Standard of Unionism.CHAPTER XV. Florida Towns and Country—A Florida Senator.CHAPTER XVI. Orange Groves and an Ancient Village—The Oldest Town and Fort in the United States—Northern Speculations.CHAPTER XVII. Dungeness, and the “Greatest of the Lees”—Cultivation of the Olive—Criminations of the Officers.CHAPTER XVIII. The Southern “Ultima Thule” of the United States.CHAPTER XIX. A Remarkable Negro Story—One of the Strange Possibilities of Slavery.CHAPTER XX. Among the Cubans—The Impending Downfall of Cuban Slavery.CHAPTER XXI. Scenes in Mobile—The Cotton Swindles.CHAPTER XXII. Mobile Loyalists and Reconstructionists—Black and White.CHAPTER XXIII. New Orleans and New Orleans Notabilities.CHAPTER XXIV. The Beginning Reaction—Northern Emigrants and New Orleans Natives.CHAPTER XXV. Among the Negro Schools.CHAPTER XXVI. Talks with the Citizens, White and Black.CHAPTER XXVII. A Free-labor Sugar Plantation.CHAPTER XXVIII. The “Jeff. Davis Cotton Plantation.”CHAPTER XXIX. Vicksburg to Louisville.CHAPTER XXX. General Aspects of the South at the Close of the War.CHAPTER XXXI. Mid-summer at the Capitol.CHAPTER XXXII. Richmond, after Six Months of Yankee Rule.CHAPTER XXXIII. Lynchburg—The Interior of Virginia.CHAPTER XXXIV. Knoxville and the Mountaineers—Glimpses of Southern Ideas.CHAPTER XXXV. Atlanta—Georgia Phases of Rebel and Union Talk.CHAPTER XXXVI. Montgomery—The Lowest Phase of Negro Character—Politics and Business.CHAPTER XXXVII. Selma—Government Armories—Talks among the Negroes.CHAPTER XXXVIII. Mississippi Tavern Talks on National Politics—Scenes in the Interior.CHAPTER XXXIX. Mobile Temper and Trade—Inducements of Alabama to Emigrants.CHAPTER XL. Phases of Public Sentiment in New Orleans before Congress met.CHAPTER XLI. Cotton Speculations—Temper of the Mississippians.CHAPTER XLII. Memphis—Out from the Reconstructed.CHAPTER XLIII Congress Takes Charge of Reconstruction.CHAPTER XLIV. Southern Feeling after the Meeting of Congress.CHAPTER XLV. Political and Business Complications in the South-west.CHAPTER XLVI. The Sugar and Rice Culture in Louisiana—Profits and Obstacles.CHAPTER XLVII. A Cotton Plantation—Work, Workmen, Wages, Expenses and Returns.CHAPTER XLVIII. Among the Cotton Plantations—Rations and Ways of Work.CHAPTER XLIX. Plantation Negroes—Incidents and Characteristics.CHAPTER L. Further Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character.CHAPTER LI. Payments, Strikes, and other Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character.CHAPTER LII. Labor Experiments and Prospects.CHAPTER LIII. Concluding Suggestions.THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE