"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers, and in detailing the ways of enslaved working on…
“200 numbered copies. On the cover: "On the Blockade, 1861 to 1863. Cotton planting in the Confederacy." A Northerner on a Mississippi plantation, north of Vicksburg.”