Table of Contents

Hinsonville, A community at the Crossroads
The Story of a Nineteenth-Century African-American Village
by by Marianne H. Russo and Paul A. Russo

	Contents
	Foreword Robert D. Sayre	ix
	Acknowledgements	xiii
	Introduction Marriane H. Russo	xvii
1.	A Community on the Doorstep of Slavery	1
2.	The Geographic and Political Landscape	6
3.	The Earliest Families	19
4.	The Family as an Institution	31
5.	The Hosanna Church	43
6.	Life at Midcentury	59
7.	The Great Debate over Slavery	72
8.	The Long Shadow of the Fugitive Slave Act	82
9.	The Founding of Ashmun Institute	93
10.	The Civil War and Its Aftermath	107
11.	The Great Church Spilt	124
12.	The Vanished Village	130
	Appendices
I	Genealogies: Walls Family and Amos Family	137
II	A Guide to Primary Sources for the History of Hinsonville	145
	Notes	161
	Bibliography	179
	Index	189