New Masters: Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction.

by Lawrence Powell

Book Overview

New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North's efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand new masters, or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823218945
• ISBN13: 9780823218943
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"