Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia - Couverture rigide

Wetherington, Mark V.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807829633 ISBN 13 : 9780807829639

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Civil War was not just a rich man's war to rural whites In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white ""plain folk"" - mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople - in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.

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À propos de l'auteur

MARK V. WETHERINGTON is director of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, and author of the award-winning The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807829633
• ISBN 13: 9780807829639
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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