Akiko Ochiai is associate professor of American history at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, specializing in African-American history and culture. A graduate of Tsuda College, she received an MA from the University of Iowa and a PhD in American History from Tsukuba University. In addition to numerous articles in Japanese, her English articles appear in the New England Quarterly, Soundings, The Griot, and The Journal of American and Canadian Studies.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionHistorical Growth of a Black RegionThe Port Royal Experiment"Free Labor" and Land SaleThe AFIC, Preemption Reversal, and Second Land SalesThe Promise of Sherman ReservationAfrican American PoliticizationAn African American Yeoman Community--The Case of St. Helena Island--ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

[A] lively read and should be purchased by all libraries with collections on African American history and Reconstruction. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.

Akiko Ochiai is associate professor of American history at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, specializing in African-American history and culture. A graduate of Tsuda College, she received an MA from the University of Iowa and a PhD in American History from Tsukuba University. In addition to numerous articles in Japanese, her English articles appear in the New England Quarterly, Soundings, The Griot, and The Journal of American and Canadian Studies.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionHistorical Growth of a Black RegionThe Port Royal Experiment"Free Labor" and Land SaleThe AFIC, Preemption Reversal, and Second Land SalesThe Promise of Sherman ReservationAfrican American PoliticizationAn African American Yeoman Community--The Case of St. Helena Island--ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

[A] lively read and should be purchased by all libraries with collections on African American history and Reconstruction. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.

Akiko Ochiai is associate professor of American history at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, specializing in African-American history and culture. A graduate of Tsuda College, she received an MA from the University of Iowa and a PhD in American History from Tsukuba University. In addition to numerous articles in Japanese, her English articles appear in the New England Quarterly, Soundings, The Griot, and The Journal of American and Canadian Studies.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionHistorical Growth of a Black RegionThe Port Royal Experiment"Free Labor" and Land SaleThe AFIC, Preemption Reversal, and Second Land SalesThe Promise of Sherman ReservationAfrican American PoliticizationAn African American Yeoman Community--The Case of St. Helena Island--ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

[A] lively read and should be purchased by all libraries with collections on African American history and Reconstruction. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.