Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Merle Curti Award "McCurry strips the Confederacy of
myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the
proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to
fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also
slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South.
Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a fresh,
bold take on the Civil War that every student of the conflict
should read." -Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
"McCurry challenges us to expand our definition of politics to
encompass not simply government but the entire public sphere. The
struggle for Southern independence, she shows, opened the door for
the mobilization of two groups previously outside the political
nation-white women of the nonslaveholding class and
slaves...Confederate Reckoning offers a powerful new paradigm for
understanding events on the Confederate home front." -Eric Foner,
The Nation "Perhaps the highest praise one can offer McCurry's work
is to say that once we look through her eyes, it will become almost
impossible to believe that we ever saw or thought otherwise...At
the outset of the book, McCurry insists that she is not going to
ask or answer the timeworn question of why the South lost the Civil
War. Yet in her vivid and richly textured portrait of what she
calls the Confederacy's 'undoing,' she has in fact accomplished
exactly that." -Drew Gilpin Faust, New Republic "A brilliant,
eye-opening account of how Southern white women and black slaves
fatally undermined the Confederacy from within." -Edward
Bonekemper, Civil War News The story of the Confederate States of
America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white
Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many
times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie
McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience.
When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the
harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued.
Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most
powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the
majority of their own people-white women and slaves-and thereby
sowed the seeds of their demise. Wartime scarcity of food, labor,
and soldiers tested the Confederate vision at every point and
created domestic crises to match those found on the battlefields.
Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested
government enlistment and tax and welfare policies, and struggled
for their freedom. The attempt to repress a majority of its own
population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the
disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great
struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood.
That Confederate struggle played out in a highly charged
international arena. The political project of the Confederacy was
tried by its own people and failed. The government was forced to
become accountable to women and slaves, provoking an astounding
transformation of the slaveholders' state. Confederate Reckoning is
the startling story of this epic political battle in which women
and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the
outcome of the Civil War.
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