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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Antebellum Old Northwest: “For the white man, and the white man only”
2. Illinois and the Legacy of Antebellum Racist Violence: “The peculiar climate of this region”
3. Indiana during Reconstruction: “This negro elephant is getting to be a pretty large sized animal
4. Black Families and Resistance in Kansas, 1880–1905: “There is nothing like reputation”
5. Missouri’s Little Dixie, 1899–1921: “They flog a negro up there every week”
6. The Missouri Ozarks and Beyond, 1894–1930: “Whence all negroes have been driven forth”
7. The Old Northwest, 1890s–1930s: “If we do our duty no mob can ever get into this jail”
8. The Midwest in the Late Lynching Period: “A queer precipitate of the old and the new”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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