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Keri Leigh Merritt

Keri Leigh Merritt is an independent scholar in Atlanta. She received a PhD in history from the University of Georgia and recently published her first book, on poor whites in the antebellum South, with Cambridge University Press. She is currently researching two different book projects, one on radical black resistance during Reconstruction and one on sheriffs and police in the nineteenth-century South.

The Pearl River Swamp on the Louisiana-Mississippi border.
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War Happens in Dark Places, Too

By Keri Leigh Merritt | March 3, 2019

In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.

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