An edition of Plain folk and gentry in a slave society (1985)

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white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands

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An edition of Plain folk and gentry in a slave society (1985)

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white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands

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In 1861, only about one-quarter of white southern families owned slaves, yet the vast majority of nonslave-owning whites followed southern planters into a long and bloody war to defend slavery. In doing so, they raised the obvious question: Why? What was it about the nature of class and race relations in the Old South that led them to such sacrifice? - Introduction.

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Wesleyan University Press, Distributed by Harper & Row
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English
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274

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Subjects
Public opinion, History, Slaveholders, Slavery, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Attitudes, Social classes, Slavery, united states, Augusta (ga.), Georgia, economic conditions, Georgia, social conditions, Public opinion, united states, Social classes, united states, Slavery, united states, history, Southern states, history
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Augusta Region, Georgia, Augusta Region (Ga.)
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19th century

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Cover of: Plain folk and gentry in a slave society
Plain folk and gentry in a slave society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
1998, Louisiana State University Press
in English - Louisiana paperback ed.
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Cover of: Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society
Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
1987, Wesleyan University Press
in English
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Cover of: Plain folk and gentry in a slave society
Plain folk and gentry in a slave society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
1985, Wesleyan University Press, Distributed by Harper & Row
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Middletown, Conn, Scranton, Pa

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 253-261.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Johns Hopkins University, 1982.)
Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
975.8/6
Library of Congress
E445.G3 H37 1985, E445.G3H37 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 274 p. :
Number of pages
274

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OL3026693M
Internet Archive
plainfolkgentryi0000harr
ISBN 10
0819551252
LCCN
85007108
OCLC/WorldCat
11866609
Library Thing
676558
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4569473

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