Description: An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center
Brief description: Aaron D. Anderson, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an instructor of history at Clovis Community College in Clovis, New Mexico. His work has appeared in A Companion to American Military History, Journal of Mississippi History, Journal of Economic History, and Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
Review Quotes: Anderson's fascinating and in-depth exploration of primary sources provides us with an invaluable window into small southern towns as they transitioned from the world of antebellum plantations into reconstruction, sharecropping, Jim Crow, and, eventually, the early steps toward our more technological and corporate world.--Stephanie O. Crofton "Essays in Economic & Business History"