Entrepreneurs in the southern upcountry : commercial culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880 / Bruce W. Eelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eelman, Bruce W., 1967-

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.

Industries.

Industrialization--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.

Industrialization.

Entrepreneurship--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.

Entrepreneurship.

History.

South Carolina--Spartanburg.

Physical Description:

xii, 313 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008]

Summary:

In Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry, Bruce W. Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation belt. Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution to the South, Eelman finds that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen advocated a comprehensive vision for modernizing their region. Although their plans were forward looking, they still supported slavery and racial segregation.

Contents:

1 "The Rising Generation": Commerce and Class in Antebellum Spartanburg 9

2 "We Must Manufacture": Textiles and Transportation in the Antebellum Era 38

3 "An Educated and Intelligent People Cannot Be Enslaved": The Struggle for Common School Reform 70

4 "Moral and Industrial Reform May Be United in One System": Modernizing Law and Morality 88

5 "We Have No Union Now": Secession and War 113

6 "To Pay Our Debts and Build Up Our Fallen Fortunes": Economic Recovery and Commercial Expansion in Postwar Spartanburg 134

7 "A Great Commercial and Railroad Centre": Textiles, Transportation, and Trade in the Postwar Era 163

8 "Educate Your Sons, They Will Build Reservoirs and Railroads": Race, Class, and Postwar Public Education 189

9 "The Timely and Judicious Administration of the Laws": Law, Vigilantism, and the Business Community of Postwar Spartanburg 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780820330198

0820330191

OCLC:

154704386