Chapter II: 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.