The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose.
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... plantation as a benign school for uncivilized savages and Reconstruction as a time of folly, when inferior African Americans had been allowed to vote and hold office. Historians of the past two generations, however, have dismantled the.
... plantation as a benign school for uncivilized savages and Reconstruction as a time of folly, when inferior African Americans had been allowed to vote and hold office. Historians of the past two generations, however, have dismantled the.
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... plantation slavery was central to the southern economy, to southern social relations, and to the southern movement toward secession. Their work has also taught us about the tens of thousands of former slaves and southern whites who ...
... plantation slavery was central to the southern economy, to southern social relations, and to the southern movement toward secession. Their work has also taught us about the tens of thousands of former slaves and southern whites who ...
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... plantation agriculture based on African slave labor distinguished the southern British colonies, and then the southern states, from those to their north. Still, if the leaders of the southern states had found a way to end slavery in the ...
... plantation agriculture based on African slave labor distinguished the southern British colonies, and then the southern states, from those to their north. Still, if the leaders of the southern states had found a way to end slavery in the ...
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... Plantation Crop: Tobacco The dynamic of Indian-English relationships was altered when the settlers discovered a source of wealth. John Rolfe, who was one of several settlers seeking a crop to satisfy an English market, began to ...
... Plantation Crop: Tobacco The dynamic of Indian-English relationships was altered when the settlers discovered a source of wealth. John Rolfe, who was one of several settlers seeking a crop to satisfy an English market, began to ...
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... Plantation Crop As early as 1629, Charles I had granted to one of his political allies a huge area between Virginia and Florida, which he named ''Carolana'' after himself. About 500 English settlers drifted down from Virginia into the ...
... Plantation Crop As early as 1629, Charles I had granted to one of his political allies a huge area between Virginia and Florida, which he named ''Carolana'' after himself. About 500 English settlers drifted down from Virginia into the ...
Contents
A Short History 15001877 Part II Making the Old South | 95 |
A Short History 15001877 Notes | 249 |
A Short History 15001877 Bibliographical Note | 273 |
A Short History 15001877 Index | 278 |
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The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877 J. William Harris No preview available - 2006 |
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