New Masters : Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Hard...

by Lawrence N. Powell

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New Masters : Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Hardcover by Powell, Lawrence N., ISBN 0823218937, ISBN-13 9780823218936, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Analyzes the North's efforts to transform the South, both during and after the Civil War, into a free labor economy and society, and addresses the role that "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-Reconstruction system. Examination of records of some 500 northern planters reveals that northern emigrants provided much of the capital southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy, thus helping to perpetuate the plantation system of servitude and debt, yet these planters also provided the catalyst for revitalization of the South. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 1999
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780823218936
• Condition: Fine

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