At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915 [Book Review]

This beautifully written and deeply, if traditionally, researched book raises but does not answer two large questions: why did the extensive late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century southern labour-control laws apparently fail to impede black geographic mobility; and why was white (and black?) opposition to such laws seemingly so much more effective than opposition to disfranchisement, Jim Crow, and anti-violence laws?