The old South : a brief history with documents / David Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, David, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

African Americans.

History.

Politics and government.

Southern States--History.

Southern States.

Southern States--Politics and government--History.

Southern States--African Americans--History--19th century.

Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Race relations.

Southern States--History--1775-1865.

Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Slavery--Southern States--History.

Slavery.

Social classes--Southern States.

Indians of North America--Southern States.

Indians of North America.

Southern States--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

230 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2014.

Summary:

The Old South: A Brief History with Documents sheds new light on the people and events that shaped the South. It deftly shows how the South's diverse people interacted with each other in ways that affect the region and the nation to this day. Each chapter is accompanied by historical documents dial illuminate the South's people in intimate and telling ways. The story tells of first contacts between area natives and Europeans, resulting in a clash of cultures that transformed societies. Subsequent struggles for land and power, strategies to subdue and enslave, and efforts to resist and survive Said the foundations of what would become a distinct region called the South. During the American Revolution, that region passed out of the British Empire, birthed in a conflict that was as much a civil war as a war for independence, especially for Southerners. Over the following decades, Native Americans were relentlessly driven out as the South moved west, establishing an agriculturally based society and economy dominated by a slaveholding minority. Facing pressures against them from within the South as well as without, slaveholders sought to make slavery perpetual in a war that pitted not only North against South, but also Southerners against each other. Barely a year into the war, an Atlanta newspaper wrote: "If we are defeated, it will be by the people at home." And so the Confederacy was defeated, not only by Union armies-in which nearly half a million Southern men served-but also by home-front opposition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Clash of cultures: race, class, and conflict in the Colonial South

Rebels, Tories and victims: the South's first civil war

The South moves west: expansion and the tragedy of Indian removal

Widening gaps: planters, plain folk, and the enslaved

A South divided: secession and the South's inner civil war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-218) and index.

ISBN:

0881464848

9780881464849

OCLC:

869589070