Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James L. Roark

Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction

James L. Roark

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nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In 1865, the Confederacy passed into history, but its ideological cornerstone survived. War had ended slavery, but war had not ended Southern planters' attachment to it. This is a history of that moment when planters became masters without slaves.

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