Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The antebellum community: The land and the people
  • The agricultural economy
  • The non-agricultural economy
  • Community institutions and social life
  • Slavery: the peculiar institution
  • Antebellum political life: conflict within consensus
  • Secession and Civil War: The secession crisis, 1860-1861
  • The community at war, 1861-1865
  • Theophilus and Harriet Perry: "war makes its widows by the thousand"
  • Reconstruction: Presidential reconstruction: May, 1865-March, 1867
  • Congressional reconstruction, March, 1865-April, 1870
  • Republican government, 1870-1878
  • "Redemption," 1879-1880
  • Threshold of the "New South"
  • Harrison County in 1880: change and continuity since 1850
  • Appendices: The Census samples of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880
  • Non-heads of household in the population samples.