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Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) - Hardcover
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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, journals, diaries, and other primary sources, he shows vividly the impact of the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Populism, and the rise of the New South industrialism on southern society. Working within the new social history and using detailed analyses of five representative counties, wartime violence, Ku Klux Klan membership, stock-law legislation, and textile mill records, Escott reaches telling conclusions on the interplay of race, class, and politics. Despite fundamental political and economic reforms, Escott argues, North Carolina's social system remained as hierarchical and undemocratic in 1900 as it had been in 1850.
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Well-researched and thought-provoking.
"Georgia Historical Quarterly"
"Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, the book emphasizes that, after all, history is the story of people.
"North Carolina Historical Review""
Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, the book emphasizes that, after all, history is the story of people.
"North Carolina Historical Review"
About the Author
Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor of history and dean of the Undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University. His books include After Secession, Slavery Remembered, A People and A Nation, and North Carolina Yeoman.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0807816515
- ISBN 13 9780807816516
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages366
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