About the Author

Edward E. Baptist is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of Creating an Old South. Stephanie M. H. Camp is an associate professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Closer to Freedom.

Reviews

"This is a provocative study of an understudied state, with much to tell us about the antebellum South as a whole." - Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University