The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 2, Number 4
December 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Mark Fleszar
"My Laborers in Haiti are not Slaves": Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835-1846

Jarret Ruminski
"Tradyville": The Contraband Trade and the Problem of Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi

K. Stephen Prince
Legitimacy and Interventionism: Northern Republicans, the "Terrible Carpetbagger," and the Retreat from Reconstruction

Review Essay

Roseanne Currarino
Toward a History of Cultural Economy

Professional Notes

T. Lloyd Benson
Geohistory: Democratizing the Landscape of Battle

Book Reviews
Books Received
Notes on Contributors

The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.