Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557287359
The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf
This groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like slavery, in which workers had little control over their own labor. In arguing for both change and continuity, Moneyhon reconciles contemporary accounts of the war's effects while addressing ongoing debates within the historical literature.