"Reorganization of the Southern
Economy after the Civil War"
Clarence Walker
Professor of History
University of California, Davis

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Clarence Walker link is Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Educated at University of California Berkeley, his publications include: "Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings" Jan 2009, We Can't Go Home Again An Argument About Afrocentrism. (2001 )Times Literary Supplement Book of the year 2001 and The Preacher & The Politician: Jeremiah Wright & Barack Obama and the Politics of Race (2009).

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Weblinks

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: PBS online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/index.html

Maps: Sharecropping in the South & The Barrow Plantation
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/foner2/contents/ch15/imaps.asp

America's Reconstruction: People and Politics
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html

Reconstruction Era of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States

Books

All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten
(a powerful story of sharecropping and its inequities)

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
by Eric Foner

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
by Leon F. Litwack

The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901
Rayford Whittingham Logan