Bibliograph

Unequal freedoms, ethnicity, race, and white supremacy in Civil War-era Charleston, Jeff Strickland ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

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Unequal freedoms, ethnicity, race, and white supremacy in Civil War-era Charleston, Jeff Strickland ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-367) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unequal freedoms

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

889164965

Responsibility statement

Jeff Strickland ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Series statement

Southern dissent

Sub title

ethnicity, race, and white supremacy in Civil War-era Charleston

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Chronology -- 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

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