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Wealth And Power In Antebellum Texas (Paperback)
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Americans have long lived with an optimistic view of their society,
what might be termed the "egalitarian idea." The antebellum South,
with its peculiar institution of Negro slavery, has stood in
general as the most likely exception to this ideal, though the
"planter vs. plain folk" debate has engaged generations of
scholars. How closely did the South approximate the "egalitarian
ideal"? And how did the South compare with the rest of the nation
in terms of economic and political arrangements?
"Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas" investigates these questions
for a relatively young and rapidly developing part of the slave
South. Relying on quantitative evidence gathered from census
records as well as on traditional historical materials, the authors
examine all measures of the "egalitarian ideal" in the Lone Star
state. Their close analysis of wealthholding, the interplay of
economic and political relationships, and the direction and degree
of change from 1850 to 1860 reveals a high and stable level of
inequality in the distribution of wealth, a high concentration of
wealthholding in Texas towns, and clear indication that those who
held the greatest share of wealth also held the balance of
political power.
Where possible, comparisons have been made with other areas of the
United States. Surprisingly, wealth in Texas before the Civil War
was no more unequally distributed than it was elsewhere in the
country, both North and South, during the same period. The
"egalitarian ideal" may have been largely mythical in antebellum
Texas, but it seems to have been equally mythical in the nation as
a whole.
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