| War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion Contributor(s): Durrill, Wayne K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195089235 ISBN-13: 9780195089233 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $87.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: 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 laborers, 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 laborers 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 from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 975.6 |
| Lexile Measure: 1670 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.51" W x 8.23" (0.84 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 laborers, 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 laborers 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 from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude. |