In Rich Man’s War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.
This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was ‘a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight’ that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite.
The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
David Williams
Rich Man’s War
Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Rich Man’s War
Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 328 ● ISBN 9780820340791 ● Dimensione 20.5 MB ● Casa editrice University of Georgia Press ● Città Athens ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5513502 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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