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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Remembering Memphis, Remembering Reconstruction -- Introduction -- The Cotton Economy and the Rebirth of American Slavery -- "Cash for Slaves": The African American Trail of Tears -- Black Soldiers and Sailors and the Defense of Freedpeople's Rights -- "Thank God That the Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken": The Abolition of Slavery in Tennessee -- Structural Violence: The Humanitarian Crisis before the Memphis Massacre -- Urban Battlegrounds: Reconstruction in Southern Cities -- Christianity and Race in the Memphis Massacre of 1866 -- Words of Resistance: African American Women's Testimony about Sexual Violence during the Memphis Massacre -- On Duty in Memphis: Fort Pickering's African American Soldiers -- Black Organizing Traditions after Slavery -- Black Constitutionalism and the Making of the Fourteenth Amendment -- "The Violent Bear It Away": White Responses to Black Political Mobilization during Reconstruction -- "I Have Had to Pass through Blood and Fire": Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetorical Legacy of Reconstruction -- Memory Battles: History, Memory, and the Meanings of Reconstruction -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.