Introduction : kinship, community, and place in the old and the new South -- Guerrilla wars : plain folk resistance to the Confederacy -- Occupied at home : women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt -- Disordered communities : freedpeople, poor Whites, and "mixed blood" families in Reconstruction North Carolina -- Fighting a losing battle : Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900 -- Civil War Unionists as new South radicals : Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920 -- Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family -- Epilogue : fathers and sons.
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