War of Another Kind A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

Name: War of Another Kind A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion
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ISBN: 9780195089233

ISBN-10: 0195089235

ISBN-13: 9780195089233

Edition: N/A

Authors: Wayne K. Durrill

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In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county. He details struggles among planters, slaves, yeoman farmers, and landless white labourers, as well as a guerrilla war and a clash between two armies that, in the end, destroyed all that remained of the county's social structure. He examines the failure of a planter-yeoman alliance, and discusses how yeoman farmers and landless white labourers allied themselves against planters, but to no avail. He also shows how slaves, when refugeed upcountry, tried unsuccessfully to reestablish their prerogatives--a subsistence, as well as protection…

Book details

List price: $88.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue the Beginnings of a Plantation Community



Secession



The Yeoman Challenge



Removal: The First Crisis in Paternalism



A Question of Sovereignty



The Emancipation Proclamation: Beginnings of a Property War



Refugeeing: The Second Crisis in Paternalism



Guerrilla War



The Battle of Plymouth


Epilogue: the End of a Plantation Community


Statistical Appendix


Notes


Bibliographic Note


Index