South Carolina In The Civil War And Reconstruction Eras

Author : Michael Brem Bonner,Fritz Hamer
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611176667

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South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras by Michael Brem Bonner,Fritz Hamer Pdf

An anthology of important scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras from the journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Since 1931, the South Carolina Historical Association has published an annual, peer-reviewed journal of historical scholarship. In this volume, past SCHA officers of Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer present twenty-three of the most enduring and significant essays from the archives, offering a treasure trove of scholarship on an impressive variety of subjects including race, politics, military events, and social issues. All articles published in the Proceedings after 2002 are available on the SCHA website, but this volume offers, for the first time, easy access to the journal’s best articles on the Civil War and Reconstruction up through 2001. Preeminent scholars such as Frank Vandiver, Dan T. Carter, and Orville Vernon Burton are among the contributors to this collection, an essential resource for historical synthesis of the Palmetto State’s experience during that era.

Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807837269

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North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Paul D. Escott Pdf

Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and gender relations brought new controversy. Blacks fought for freedom, women sought greater independence, and their aspirations for change stimulated fierce resistance from more privileged groups. Republicans and Democrats fought over power during Reconstruction and for decades thereafter disagreed over the meaning of the war and Reconstruction. With contributions by well-known historians as well as talented younger scholars, this volume offers new insights into all the key issues of the Civil War era that played out in pronounced ways in the Tar Heel State. In nine essays composed specifically for this volume, contributors address themes such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North Carolinians today. Contributors: David Brown, Manchester University Judkin Browning, Appalachian State University Laura F. Edwards, Duke University Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia Chandra Manning, Georgetown University Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia Steven E. Nash, University of Georgia Paul Yandle, West Virginia University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

Author : Richard Zuczek
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362366

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State of Rebellion by Richard Zuczek Pdf

A chronicle of postwar resistance in the Palmetto State State of Rebellion recounts the volatile course of Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest, and most dynamic federal presence in the years immediately following the Civil War. Richard Zuczek examines the opposition of conservative white South Carolinians to the Republican-led program and the federal and state governments' attempts to quell such resistance. Contending that the issues that had driven secession—the relationship of the states to the federal government and the status of African Americans—remained unresolved even after Northern victory, Zuczek describes the period from 1865 to 1877 as a continuation of the struggle that began in 1861. He argues that Republican efforts failed primarily because of an organized, coherent effort by white Southerners committed to white supremacy. Zuczek details the tactics—from judicial and political fraud to economic coercion, terrorism, and guerrilla activity—employed by conservatives to nullify the African American vote, control African American labor, and oust northern Republicans from the state. He documents the federal government's attempt to quash the conservative challenge but shows that, by 1876, white opposition was so unified, widespread, and well armed that it passed beyond government control.

Author : Jerry Lee West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0786412585

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The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877 by Jerry Lee West Pdf

The Reconstruction was meant to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South following the Civil War. But the Reconstruction, marked by the continued strong hatred and hostility between liberated African Americans and angry Ku Klux Klan members, was hardly a time of reconciliation for the South. This work deals with the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, a paramilitary group with political aims that used violence and intimidation to achieve its goals. It addresses exclusively the Klans activities in York County, South Carolina, during the years 1865-1877. It clarifies some misconceptions about the Reconstruction Klan and disentangles it from later organizations that used the same name. There are no reports of its burning crosses or persecuting Jews and Catholics and it has no connection to the Klan that appeared in the early part of the twentieth century or todays counterpart that marches under the Confederate flag. Throughout the Reconstruction, blacks and whites tried to out-shout each other in the new era of conversation, and, as shown in this work, made little progress in understanding, or trying to understand, each other.

Author : Edmund L. Drago
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557285411

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Hurrah for Hampton! by Edmund L. Drago Pdf

In South Carolina, in the aftermath of the Civil War, a group of ex-slaves joined the Democratic "Red Shirts," white paramilitary clubs dedicated to restoring antebellum values. Drawing on primary sources, Drago examines the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism.

Author : Steven E. Nash
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626253

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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge by Steven E. Nash Pdf

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.

Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000033605036

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American Eras: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877 by Robert J. Allison Pdf

Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.

Author : Frank J. Wetta,Martin A. Novelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136331855

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The Long Reconstruction by Frank J. Wetta,Martin A. Novelli Pdf

A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory brings together history and popular culture to explore how the events of this era have been remembered. Looking at popular cinema across the last hundred years, The Long Reconstruction uncovers central themes in the history of Reconstruction, including violence and terrorism; the experiences of African Americans and those of women and children; the Lost Cause ideology; and the economic reconstruction of the American South. Analyzing influential films such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, as well as more recent efforts such as Cold Mountain and Lincoln, the authors show how the myths surrounding Reconstruction have impacted American culture. This engaging book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Reconstruction, historical memory, and popular culture.

Author : Susan M. Latta
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629686769

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Reconstruction Era by Susan M. Latta Pdf

Learn why the Reconstruction was such a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States, and the great effort it took to transform the south and free the slaves. This title offers primary sources, Fast facts and sidebars, prompts and activities, and more. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : John Schreiner Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Reconstruction
ISBN : UOM:39015005585727

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Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877 by John Schreiner Reynolds Pdf

Author : David Silkenat
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877951

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Moments of Despair by David Silkenat Pdf

During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments. Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing a reinterpretation of these issues in a new social, cultural, and economic context in which they were increasingly untethered from social expectations. Black North Carolinians, for their part, used emancipation to lay the groundwork for new bonds of community and their own interpretation of social frameworks. Silkenat argues that North Carolinians' attitudes differed from those of people outside the South in two respects. First, attitudes toward these cultural practices changed more abruptly and rapidly in the South than in the rest of America, and second, the practices were interpreted through a prism of race. Drawing upon a robust and diverse body of sources, including insane asylum records, divorce petitions, bankruptcy filings, diaries, and personal correspondence, this innovative study describes a society turned upside down as a consequence of a devastating war.

Author : Bettye Stroud,Virginia Schomp
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761421815

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The Reconstruction Era by Bettye Stroud,Virginia Schomp Pdf

Traces the history of Reconstruction, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877, when federal troops were removed from the South.

Author : Tracey Baptiste
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680480412

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The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras by Tracey Baptiste Pdf

This extensive guide details the political and economic forces that affected the expansion of slavery and how slaves, freed black Americans, and white liberal politicians fought for the freedom of slaves and for the basic rights of dignity and protection that they had not previously enjoyed under the law. The book sheds light on the collective and sometimes little-known contributions of African Americans to their own freedom and traces the economic disparity between the freed slaves and the rest of America, the rise of terrorism targeting African Americans, and the politics that eventually led to the Jim Crow era.

Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876107

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Iron Confederacies by Scott Reynolds Nelson Pdf

During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.

Author : Page Smith
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Reconstruction
ISBN : UCAL:B4393820

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Trial by Fire by Page Smith Pdf

The fifth volume of his multi-volume history of the United States from 1861 to 1874.