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December, 2006
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On Jordan's Banks
Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley

By Darrel E. Bigham
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Pp. x, 428. Maps, appendix, notes, index. $45.00.)

With On Jordan's Banks, Darrel E. Bigham, for many years a productive scholar of southern Indiana history, broadens his geographical scope to focus upon the African American experience in the Ohio River valley during the last half of the nineteenth century. In this heavily footnoted volume, Bigham brings together an impressive array of secondary sources and supplements these with original research into census materials, tax records, and other primary documents. The work makes a valuable contribution to the scholarly record and represents a worthy addition to the Ohio River Valley Series published by the University Press of Kentucky. It is not, however, an easy book to read. . . .
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