Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900

by Paul D. Escott

Book Overview

Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina's major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or workers, and the blacks, and analyzes their attitudes, social structure, and power relationships. Quoting frequently from a remarkable array of letters,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807842281
• ISBN13: 9780807842287
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"