| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina. By Akiko Ochiai. (Westport: Praeger, 2004. xvi, 289 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97935-0.)

In striving to understand African Americans' transition from enslavement to freedom, historians have scrutinized few areas of the South more closely than the low country and Sea Island regions of South Carolina. Scholars such as Willie Lee Rose and Julie Saville—both authors of award-winning monographs—have already placed the area under a microscope, and yet the Japanese scholar Akiko Ochiai has chosen to return to the locale for her exploration of African American "agrarianism." Unfortunately, the author never makes a convincing case that further study of the region is called for, nor does she work to differentiate her findings from those of the scholars who have preceded her. Ochiai demonstrates an impressive command of the secondary literature and a thorough immersion in the relevant primary sources, but Harvesting Freedom offers few fresh insights.

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