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Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains /

"Nash analyzes the unfolding of Reconstruction in the mountain counties of southern Appalachia, focusing on the particular ways that region's patterns of development, relatively low levels of prewar slaveholding, political allegiances, histories of violence, etc., shaped the era politicall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nash, Steven E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the stage: antebellum and Civil War western North Carolina
  • Mountain masters without slaves: the aftermath of slavery, 1865-1867
  • Great time for the Tories and Negroes: loyalty, race, and power, 1865-1868
  • Agents of change: the Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-1868
  • Every thing that the devil can suggest: Klan violence and the Republicans' failure, 1868-1872
  • The beginning of a "new" mountain South: agriculture, railroads, and social change, 1872-1880.