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Copyright 1965 by the University of Alabama Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Alabama Press. Page x "William Watson Davis" is the introduction to the 1964 facsimile edition of The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida by William Watson Davis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1913). Copyright 1964 by the University of Florida Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Florida Press. "Some Aspects of the Convict Lease System in the Southern States" appeared in Essays in Southern History Presented to Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton .
166-167 (hereafter, Emmons, Geological Report). 41 John Steele, The Papers of John Steele, edited by H. M. , 1924), II, 505, 506, 876-879. See also Archibald Debow Murphey, The Papers of Archibald D. Murphey, edited by William H. , 1914), I, 154-155 (hereafter, Murphey Papers). 42 A contemporary description of the mining operations reads as follows: The common mode of working is . . first, to pick out all the visible grains they can find, and throw by the remaining mass into a heap, and afterwards, at some convenient time, to separate the minuter particles thoroughly by means of mercury.
Cycles of American Democracy" appeared in the June 1961 issue of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, now the Journal of American History. Reprinted by permission of the Journal of American History and the Organization of American Historians. "On Tour with President Andrew Jackson" appeared in the New England Quarterly (June 1963). Reprinted by permission of the New England Quarterly. "Thomas Prentice Kettell: Economist, Editor, and Historian" is the introduction to Southern Wealth and Northern Profits by Thomas Prentice Kettell.
