Southern Exodus to Mexico

Todd W. Wahlstrom is an assistant professor of history at Seaver College at Pepperdine University.

"A welcome contribution to the lately growing scholarship on the Confederate-exile experience that is excellently grounded in historiography."-Robert May, American Historical Review “A well-researched study of the people, events, and ideas surrounding Confederate migration and colonization efforts in Mexico.”-C. L. Sinclair, Choice“Should be included in any conversation about the global dimensions of southern history.”-John Mckiernan-GonzÁlez, Journal of Southern History "This is an important book, and it deserves a place on reading lists for graduate seminars and Civil War enthusiasts alike. Indeed, not only does Wahlstrom add a great deal to the historiographical discussion in Civil War history, but his work also serves as a significant contribution to Southern, emancipation, and borderlands history."-Matthew M. Stith, Civil War Book Review "The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an intervention in borderlands history, in black-white-Indian history, in migration history, in economic history, and in the history of national, class, and racial identities. It is also that rare and wonderful kind of historical writing: a tale of roads not taken, of dreams not quite fulfilled. Even though most of the migrants did not achieve all that they had hoped, there is much for us to learn from their ventures. Wahlstrom shows us a dynamic borderland and the peoples who traversed it."—Paul Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

• List of Illustrations and Tables    Acknowledgments    Introduction    1. Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War    2. White and Black Southerners Migrate to Mexico after the American Civil War    3. Southern Colonization and the Texas-Coahuila Borderlands    4. Southern Colonization and the Fall of the Mexican Empire, 1866–67    5. Southern Colonization, Railroads, and U.S. and Mexican Modernization        Conclusion: Regions and Nations    Notes    Bibliography    Index