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Very original... a substantial contribution. Giltner has detailed wonderful vignettes of African Americans and elite white sportsmen hunting in the South. He takes the theme of common rights and shows how an elite white South restricted those rights and worked to take them from African Americans. -- Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hunting, Fishing, and Freedom
1. "You Can't Starve a Negro": Hunting and Fishing and African Americans' Subsistence in the Post-Emancipation South
2. "The Pot-Hunting Son of Ham": White Sportsmen's Objections to African Americans' Hunting and Fishing
3. "The Art of Serving Is with Them Innate": African Americans and the Work of Southern Hunting and Fishing
4. "With the Due Subordination of Master and Servant Preserved": Race and Sporting Tourism in the Post-Emancipation South
5. "When He Should Be between the Plow Handles": Sportsmen, Landowners, Legislators, and the Assault on African Americans' Hunting and Fishing
Conclusion: Contradiction and Continuity in the Southern Sporting Field
Acknowledgments
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

About the Author

Scott E. Giltner is an assistant professor of history at Culver-Stockton College.

Reviews

Scott Giltner delivers an intriguing and thoughtful survey of sporting cultures and racial identity in the postbellum South... A provocative regional study that highlights the value of approaching the American past from a socio-environmental perspective. -- Karen Jones Reviews in History Hunting and Fishing provides a new perspective on the social history of the post-Civil War South, and the 'Notes' section alone is worth the price of the book. -- John White North Carolina Historical Review Intriguing study of rural southern black hunters and upper-class white sportsmen. -- Jeanette Keith Journal of American History Giltner provides new insight into turn-of-the-century southern race relations. -- Andrea Smalley Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Essential reading. -- Stephen A. West Journal of Southern History