Loading…

Unequal Freedoms : Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War–Era Charleston /

Focusing on Charleston, South Carolina, Jeff Strickland examines the ways that race, ethnicity, and class shaped the political economy of this vital Southern city during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strickland, Jeffery Glenn, 1970- (Author)
Other Authors: Miller, Randall M. (writer of foreword.), Harrold, Stanley (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Racial and ethnic diversity in the urban South
  • Slavery and urban life
  • Antebellum municipal politics and social control
  • Postwar wage labor and petty capital formation
  • Racial and ethnic relations during reconstruction
  • The German schuetzenfest and the culture of white supremacy
  • Postwar municipal politics and the failure of reconstruction
  • Conclusion.