Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation

by John Majewski

Book Overview

What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy.

The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146961491X
• ISBN13: 9781469614915
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"