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Bookmark or Share- Reconstruction in the South - The Journal of the Civil War EraA recent study of the biostatistics of cadets at The Citadel reveals that the cadets during the late nineteenth century were smaller in stature and weight than their antebellum predecessors. The bodies of the postwar cadets were living testaments to the legacy of war and reconstruction. [14]
- When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in AmericaThe antebellum South had long been a conservative bastion, characterized by its dogged commitment to states’ rights, low taxes, strict construction of the Constitution, and especially the...
- The Postbellum South: From Slavery, Through Unfree Labour to Wage ...Abstract. Just as Prussia’s crushing defeat by Napoleon in 1806 was followed by the edict of 1807, which brought serfdom to an end in Prussia, so the South’s surrender in the American Civil War spelt the demise of slavery. That surrender came effectively on 9 April, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee handed his sword over to General Ulysses ...
- Postbellum Reorganization of Southern Agriculture: The Economics of ...Postbellum Reorganization of Southern Agriculture: The Economics of Sharecropping in Tennessee. Tennessee. DONALD L. WINTERS. The abolition of slavery created a situation that demanded a radical restructuring of plantation agriculture in the postbel- lum South.
- Class, Race, Politics, and the Modernization of the Postbellum SouthModernization of the Postbellum South By HAROLD D. WOODMAN NORTHERNERS EXPECTED THAT THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES would turn the plantation South into a land of small farms and shops similar to the North. Some insisted that this would require the breakup of large landholdings and the distribution of small farms, supplies, and
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