James Alex Baggett’s new book, Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction will be reviewed by JLF‘s own Dr. Troy Kickler.  This comes on the heels of his recent op-ed in the Raleigh News&Observer,
where Troy charts the entrepreneurial success story of North Carolina
antebellum slave, Lunsford Lane.  Fighting through the hardships
of slavery that could never extinguish his business endeavors, Lane
eventually won his freedom.  A remarkable story.