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Old Southampton - Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (Paperback)
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Old Southampton - Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (Paperback)
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Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton
County notorious. Gradually, however, the bloody spectacle receded
from national memory. Although the timeless rhythms of rural life
resumed after the insurrection, Southampton could not escape the
forces of change. From the Age of Jackson through to secession,
wartime, and Reconstruction, it shared the fate of the Old South.
Many who had witnessed the insurrection lived to see Turner's cause
triumph as war destroyed the slave system, inaugurating an intense
struggle to shape the new postwar order. Old Southampton links
local and national history. It explains how partisan loyalties
developed, how white democracy flourished in the late antebellum
years, how secession sharply divided neighborhoods with few slaves
from those with large plantations, and how, following emancipation,
former slaves challenged the prerogatives of former slaveholders.
Crofts draws on two voluminous diaries and other rich records, plus
rare poll lists that show how individuals voted. He vividly
re-creates the experiences of planters and plain folk, slave owners
and slaves, the powerful and the obscure. This deft combination of
political and social history is must reading for anyone interested
in the Old South and the Civil War era.
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