completion  of Thomas  Hicks'  term.   Although personally  opposed  to slavery,  his politics were conservative and he quickly asserted his opposition  to  unionists  with  radical   views  toward race  relations. (Dictionary of American Biography (24 vols.  and index, New York, 1928-1974),  vol.   18,  237-238;  Who Was  Who in America,  Historical Volume,   1607-1896   (Chicago,   1963),   516).
8.       The  literature  on  blacks'   economic   response  to   emancipation is  voluminous  and cannot possibly be discussed adequately in  a single  footnote.    Useful review articles include:  Harold D. Woodman, "Sequel to Slavery: The New History Views the Postbellum South," Journal   of Southern   History,   44   (November,   1977),   523-554;   and Gavin Wright, "The Strange Career of the New Southern Economic History,"   Reviews   in   American   History,   10   (December,   1982),   164-180.     Prominent studies  stressing the response of blacks  to relatively open  market  conditions   include:   Robert  Higgs,   Competition   and Coercion:   Rlacks   in   the   American   Fcnnnmy3   1865-1914   (Cambridge, Eng.,   1977);   Stephen  DeCanio,   Agriculture  in  the  Pnsthellum   South: The  Economics  of Production   and   Supply  (Cambridge,  Mass.,   1974); Joseph  D.   Reid,   "Sharecropping  as  an  Understandable  Market Response  -  the  Postbellum   South,"  Journal   of Economic  History,   33 (March,   1973),   106-130;  and  Ralph   Shlomowitz,   "'Bound'  or  'Free'?