Morality, violence, and perceptions of abolitionist success and failure from before the Civil War to the present / Stanley Harrold -- "As firmly linked to 'Africanus' as was that of the celebrated Scipio": Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops / John David Smith -- Reconstructing other southerners: the aftermath of the Civil War in the Cherokee Nation / Fay A. Yarbrough -- Army of democracy?: moving towards a new history of posse comitatus / Kevin Adams -- Democracy and race in the late Reconstruction south: the White Leagues of Louisiana / Mitchell Snay.