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Ballots And Fence Rails (Paperback)
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Ballots and Fence Rails recounts the struggle to reshape the
post-Civil War society of the lower Cape Fear River in North
Carolina, the Confederacy's last outlet to the sea. Focusing on
events in the port city of Wilmington and its rural environs,
William McKee Evans ranges in time from the region's occupation by
Union forces in 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Evans
shows that although social change was sought at the ballot box, it
was just as often resisted in the streets, with one faction armed
with pistols and sabers and another, at one point, armed mostly
with fence rails. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region,
Evans dramatically portrays the conflict as it was viewed by former
slaves, southern conservatives, carpetbaggers, and scalawags. Evans
also clarifies many generalizations about Reconstruction that are
often empty or unsubstantiated, showing that the right to vote
cannot alone diffuse political power and that Reconstruction at the
local level often differed from Reconstruction at the state level.
First published in 1967, when local history was still viewed as
parochial or less important than national history, Evans's work is
now considered pioneering. In his foreword Charles Joyner writes
that "by seeking the universal in the particular, by pursuing large
questions in his small place, William McKee Evans in Ballots and
Fence Rails makes an important and distinctive contribution to the
historical discipline.
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