Name: Jere Nash + Byron D'Andra Orey Event
Start: 2025-10-14T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Lemuria Bookstore

Join us for an event with Jere Nash in conversation with Byron D'Andra Orey for the release of Jere's new book, RECONSTRUCTION IN MISSISSIPPI, 1862-1877.
Can't make it to the event? Order your signed copy here:
https://www.lemuriabooks.com/Reconstruction-in-Mississippi-p/9781496858535.htm
About the book:
A comprehensive history of Mississippians struggling to define freedom after the Civil War.
Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional and presidential initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862–1877 is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not.
Recording the mechanics of how the Confederate states were allowed to resume representation in Congress, the restoration of civil governments, and the political freedoms the formerly enslaved people acquired, Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862–1877 documents the ways economic freedoms, such as the acquisition of land and the negotiation of fair labor contracts, evolved.