CONTENTS.

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
AFTER THE WAR.