## Section III: Chapter 9  
Mary NIALL MITCHELL is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Orleans. Her scholarship focuses on race, slavery, and emancipation in the U.S. South. Mitchell is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. She is the author of Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (New York University Press, 2008).