War of another kind : a southern community in the great rebellion / Wayne K. Durrill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durrill, Wayne K. (Wayne Keith), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantation life--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Plantation life.

Plantations--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Plantations.

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,288p. ) maps

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This social history studies the inhabitants of a North Carolina county during the American Civil War period.

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county. He details struggles among planters, slaves, yeoman farmers, and landless white labourers, as well as a guerrilla war and a clash between two armies that, in the end, destroyed all that remained of the county's social structure. He examines the failure of a planter-yeoman alliance, and discusses how yeoman farmers and landless white labourers allied themselves against planters, but to no avail. He also shows how slaves, when refugeed upcountry, tried unsuccessfully to reestablish their prerogatives--a subsistence, as well as protection from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771780-2

0-19-802262-X

1-280-44303-0

1-4237-3575-7

0-19-535835-X

1-60129-979-6

OCLC:

437154824