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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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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, historyPlaces
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Plain folk and gentry in a slave society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
1998, Louisiana State University Press
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
1987, Wesleyan University Press
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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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Bibliography: p. 253-261.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Johns Hopkins University, 1982.)
Includes index.
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