| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917. By Stephen Cresswell. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. x, 283 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-847-9.)
An incident in the 1890s reveals a great deal about Mississippi's post-Reconstruction history. After a "whitecap" mob attacked a lumber company that employed black workers, the firm's northern owners sent a mocking telegram to Gov. John M. Stone: "Your state offers great inducement for investment of money and protection of property" (p. 153).	1
A reader of Stephen Cresswell's thorough and judicious history of Mississippi in the four decades after the end of Reconstruction, closes the book with a sense of the overwhelming obstacles to progress in "the nation's most rural state" (p. 11). A state with no paved highways, a one-party government, regular epidemics, periodic racial violence, endemic malnutrition, and widespread illiteracy, Mississippi was hardly the place to attract extensive investment or European immigration.	. . .

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