| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4 | The History Cooperative

Darrel E. Bigham. On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley. (Ohio River Valley Series.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. x, 428. $45.00.
The Lower Ohio River Valley is rarely listed among the United States' distinctive regions. Darrel E. Bigham's careful study of African American life between 1860 and 1880, however, subtly reminds scholars that the Lower Ohio is important. Bigham's Lower Ohio region is a distinctive borderland between north and south, rural and urban, and black and white. Political boundaries do matter within the greater historical landscape: the river was an important boundary, but the fact that the north bank was composed of free states while the south bank was lined by Kentucky, a slave state, made a difference for the region's African Americans and established cultural parameters that affected their lives and institutions long after emancipation.	1
Bigham's geographical focus extends from the Illinois river town of Cairo on the Mississippi River to the Kentucky town of Ashland, nestled in the foothills of Appalachia. It was and is a largely rural region, but it contains such urban centers as Cincinnati, Louisville, and Paducah. Thus, Bigham's analysis will be useful to scholars not only of American regions but those of midwestern and Upper South cities.	. . .

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