EDMUND L. DRAGO is a professor of history at the College of Charleston. His other books include Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Instituteand "Broke by the War" Letters of a Slave Trader.
A fine work of scholarship and a significant contribution to
Reconstruction historiography. It ranks with the best of the recent
studies of black political leadership in the southern
states.--Kenneth M. Stampp
Drago's study moves beyond politics to provide readers with a good
deal of information on the coming of freedom to Georgia's slaves,
on the freedman's educational movement, on the modification of the
plantation system during the postwar years, and on the indifference
of white Republicans to black aspirations.--Journal of Southern
History
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