Book contents
- Freedom’s Crescent
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Freedom’s Crescent
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Prologue Life – and Labor – on the Mississippi
- Part I From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860–1862
- Part II From Military Emancipation to State Abolition, 1863
- Part III Abolition: State and Federal, 1864
- Part IV The Destruction of Slavery, 1865
- 18 “The Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken”
- 19 “This Cup of Liberty”
- 20 “Establish Things as They Were Before the War”
- 21 “The Institution of Slavery Having Been Destroyed”
- 22 “Americans in America, One and Indivisible”
- Epilogue Memphis and New Orleans: May 1–3 and July 30, 1866
- Bibliography
- Index
20 - “Establish Things as They Were Before the War”
from Part IV - The Destruction of Slavery, 1865
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Freedom’s Crescent
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Freedom’s Crescent
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Prologue Life – and Labor – on the Mississippi
- Part I From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860–1862
- Part II From Military Emancipation to State Abolition, 1863
- Part III Abolition: State and Federal, 1864
- Part IV The Destruction of Slavery, 1865
- 18 “The Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken”
- 19 “This Cup of Liberty”
- 20 “Establish Things as They Were Before the War”
- 21 “The Institution of Slavery Having Been Destroyed”
- 22 “Americans in America, One and Indivisible”
- Epilogue Memphis and New Orleans: May 1–3 and July 30, 1866
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Administrative conflict and confusion between Federal military and civil authorities in southern Louisiana in overseeing plantations, as preparations made for 1865. Sugar planters reiterate demand for labor and racial control with slavery abolished. Some former slaveholders express view that slavery might be salvaged. Planters and freedpeople in cotton region also contest features of new labor and racial order. Following Confederate capitulation in the west, Federal military forces assume control of entire lower Mississippi valley and emancipate enslaved people still under Confederate authority. Freedmen’s Bureau begins to establish itself and to institute free labor arrangements. White Southerners respond to military defeat and the end of slavery with anger and violence, and many vow that slavery will be reestablished once Federal military presence ends.
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- Freedom's CrescentThe Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, pp. 396 - 413Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023