| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. By John C. Willis. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. xvi, 239 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1971-1. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1982-7.)

This work explores the level of economic opportunity that African Americans in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta experienced from the end of the Civil War through the early twentieth century. John C. Willis begins by noting how undeveloped this area was in 1860 when it contained fewer than fifty thousand settlers (87 percent African American) and but one-tenth of its acreage had been cleared. It would be the combination of vast untapped resources and the need to attract a black labor force that would make this an area of unusual economic opportunity for blacks during the late nineteenth century. . . .

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