The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 2, Number 4December 2012TABLE OF CONTENTSArticlesMark Fleszar“My Laborers in Haiti are not Slaves”: Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835–1846Jarret Ruminski“Tradyville”: The Contraband Trade and the Problem of Loyalty in Civil War MississippiK. Stephen PrinceLegitimacy and Interventionism: Northern Republicans, the “Terrible Carpetbagger,” and the Retreat from ReconstructionReview EssayRoseanne CurrarinoToward a History of Cultural EconomyProfessional NotesT. Lloyd BensonGeohistory: Democratizing the Landscape of Battle Book ReviewsBooks ReceivedNotes on ContributorsThe Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.