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At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915 [Book Review]

Kousser, J. Morgan (1992) At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915 [Book Review]. Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 13 (3). pp. 239-241. ISSN 1743-9523. doi:10.1080/01440399208575076. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20131008-162919327

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Abstract

This beautifully written and deeply, if traditionally, researched book raises but does not answer two large questions: why did the extensive late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century southern labour-control laws apparently fail to impede black geographic mobility; and why was white (and black?) opposition to such laws seemingly so much more effective than opposition to disfranchisement, Jim Crow, and anti-violence laws?


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Additional Information:© 1992 Taylor & Francis. Book review of: At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915. William Cohen. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xix, 311 pp. ISBN: 9780807116210
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