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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society - White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands (Paperback, New edition)
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society - White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands (Paperback, New edition)
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In this exciting study of the communities on both sides of the
Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina, J. William Harris
explores two great ironies of American history, the South's
commitment to a liberty supported by slavery and its attempt to
maintain the status quo with a war that undermined southern
society. Relying on strong research in quantifiable data as well as
manuscript records, Harris examines why white southerners, most of
whom did not own slaves, united in a long, bloody war to preserve
the institution. He argues that slaveowners relied on an ideology
of liberty, a potential for social mobility, and a web of personal
relationships between classes to contain white class divisions and
ensure control over the black population. The strains of war,
Harris shows, dissolved these bonds of community and made
Confederate victory impossible, forever changing southern society.
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