3. Making Do, Getting By

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. A Terrible Freedom 9
5. 3. Making Do, Getting By 43
6. 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings 80
7. 5. School Days 108
8. 6. Working for the Man 140
9. 7. Decline and Remembrance 172
10. Appendix: Freedmen’s Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County 191
11. Notes 199
12. Bibliography 221
13. Index 239