Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Winner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.
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.Technical Specifications
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