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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. H... more Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. Historians have long viewed the postwar struggle as one between racially united white southerners and their former slaves. Recent state and regional studies of the South , however, have raised new issues regarding the Presidential Reconstruction experience throughout the former Confederacy. A variety of historical forces including race, class , and wartime loyalties, shaped Presidential Reconstruction in western North Carolina. Reconstruction was only partially the story of African Americans' transition to freedom. Throughout the South, different groups of whites also fought one another for political and social superiority. In western North Carolina, this conflict largely derived from wartime class tensions. Forced to sacrifice their men,agricultural produce, and more to the Confederate cause, poorer whites resented their wealthier neighbors, who appeared to escape such sacrifices. Su...
Southern Communities, 2019
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge, 2016
North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 2008
Reconstructing Appalachia, 2010
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge, 2016
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. H... more Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. Historians have long viewed the postwar struggle as one between racially united white southerners and their former slaves. Recent state and regional studies of the South , however, have raised new issues regarding the Presidential Reconstruction experience throughout the former Confederacy. A variety of historical forces including race, class , and wartime loyalties, shaped Presidential Reconstruction in western North Carolina. Reconstruction was only partially the story of African Americans' transition to freedom. Throughout the South, different groups of whites also fought one another for political and social superiority. In western North Carolina, this conflict largely derived from wartime class tensions. Forced to sacrifice their men,agricultural produce, and more to the Confederate cause, poorer whites resented their wealthier neighbors, who appeared to escape such sacrifices. Su...
Southern Communities, 2019
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge, 2016
North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 2008
Reconstructing Appalachia, 2010
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge, 2016