Searching for Freedom after the Civil War

Winner of the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael Thomas Book Award. Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon The cartoon first appeared in the Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor , published by local Ku Klux Klan boss Ryland Randolph, as a swaggering threat aimed at three individuals. Hanged from an oak branch clutching a carpetbag marked “OHIO” is the Reverend Arad S. Lakin, the Northern-