| PAGE. | |
|---|---|
| Preface. | iii |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Why, and How the Trip was Made. | 9 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| A School of Unadulterated Negroes—An Ancient Virginia Town under the Dispensation of Sutlers. | 13 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| “Beauties of the Sea”—First Views of Cracker Unionism. | 21 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Newbern and Beaufort—Black and White. | 28 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Fort Fisher. | 37 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Wilmington—Unionism—Blockade Running—Destitution—Negro Talk—Land Sales. | 42 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Charleston Harbor—Could Sumter have been Stormed—Negroes and Poor Whites. | 57 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Charleston, Now and Four Years Ago. | 65 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| “Unionism”—Black and White, in Charleston and Through South Carolina. | 75 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Port Royal and Beaufort. | 87 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Among the Sea Islanders. | 94 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Business, Speculation and Progress Among the Sea Island Negroes. | 122 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Pulaski—Savannah—Bonaventure. | 131 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| White and Black Georgians—The Savannah Standard of Unionism. | 142 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Florida Towns and Country—A Florida Senator. | 158 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Orange Groves and an Ancient Village—The Oldest Town and Fort in the United States—Northern Speculations. | 168 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Dungeness, and the “Greatest of the Lees”—Cultivation of the Olive—Criminations of the Officers. | 174 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| The Southern “Ultima Thule” of the United States. | 180 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| A Remarkable Negro Story—One of the Strange Possibilities of Slavery. | 189 |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Among the Cubans—The Impending Downfall of Cuban Slavery. | 194 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| Scenes in Mobile—The Cotton Swindles. | 202 |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| Mobile Loyalists and Reconstructionists—Black and White. | 217 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| New Orleans and New Orleans Notabilities. | 227 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| The Beginning Reaction—Northern Emigrants and New Orleans Natives. | 236 |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| Among the Negro Schools. | 246 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |
| Talks with the Citizens, White and Black. | 259 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | |
| A Free-labor Sugar Plantation. | 268 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
| The “Jeff. Davis Cotton Plantation”. | 279 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | |
| Vicksburg to Louisville. | 288 |
| CHAPTER XXX. | |
| General Aspects of the South at the Close of the War. | 295 |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | |
| Mid-summer at the Capitol. | 304 |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | |
| Richmond, after Six Months of Yankee Rule. | 315 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | |
| Lynchburg—The Interior of Virginia. | 328 |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | |
| Knoxville and the Mountaineers—Glimpses of Southern Ideas. | 339 |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | |
| Atlanta—Georgia Phases of Rebel and Union Talk. | 355 |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | |
| Montgomery—The Lowest Phase of Negro Character—Politics and Business. | 365 |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | |
| Selma—Government Armories—Talks among the Negroes. | 380 |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | |
| Mississippi Tavern Talks on National Politics—Scenes in the Interior. | 390 |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | |
| Mobile Temper and Trade—Inducements of Alabama to Emigrants. | 400 |
| CHAPTER XL. | |
| Phases of Public Sentiment in New Orleans before Congress met. | 407 |
| CHAPTER XLI. | |
| Cotton Speculations—Temper of the Mississippians. | 414 |
| CHAPTER XLII. | |
| Memphis—Out from the Reconstructed. | 425 |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | |
| Congress takes Charge of Reconstruction. | 429 |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | |
| Southern Feeling after the Meeting of Congress. | 439 |
| CHAPTER XLV. | |
| Political and Business Complications in the South-West. | 448 |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | |
| The Sugar and Rice Culture in Louisiana—Profits and Obstacles. | 457 |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | |
| A Cotton Plantation—Work, Workmen, Wages, Expenses, and Returns. | 475 |
| CHAPTER XLVIII. | |
| Among the Cotton Plantations—Rations and Ways of Work. | 492 |
| CHAPTER XLIX. | |
| Plantation Negroes—Incidents and Characteristics. | 503 |
| CHAPTER L. | |
| Further Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character. | 525 |
| CHAPTER LI. | |
| Payments, Strikes, and other Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character. | 546 |
| CHAPTER LII. | |
| Labor Experiments and Prospects. | 558 |
| CHAPTER LIII. | |
| Concluding Suggestions. | 574 |
| Appendix. | 581 |