How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885

by Jonathan M. Bryant

Book Overview

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land , Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers. Emancipated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807822574
• ISBN13: 9780807822579
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"