Many Excellent People
Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900
Paul D. Escott
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2012
Pages: 366
Subject: History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469610962
DESCRIPTION
Working within the new social history and using detailed analyses of five representative counties, wartime violence, Ku Klux Klan membership, stock-law legislation, and textile mill records, Escott reaches telling conclusions on the interplay of race, class, and politics. Despite fundamental political and economic reforms, Escott argues, North Carolina's social system remained as hierarchical and undemocratic in 1900 as it had been in 1850.
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