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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Author: Episcopal Church. Diocese of Fond du Lac. Convention
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Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Author: Dan T. Carter
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a small level of order to the lawless southern terrain. Dan T. Carter's When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy -- the co-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men -- former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters -- who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude. Carter finds that as a group the politicians who emerged in the postwar South failed critically in the test of their leadership. Not only were they unable to construct a realistic program for the region's recovery -- a failure rooted in their stubborn refusal to accept the full consequences of emancipation -- but their actions also served to exacerbate rather than allay the fears and apprehensions of the victorious North. Even so, Carter reveals, these leaders were not the monsters that many scholars have suggested they were, and it is misleading to dismiss them as racists and political incompetents. In important ways, they represented the most constructive, creative, and imaginative response that the white South, overwhelmed with defeat and social chaos, had to offer in 1865 and 1866. Out of their efforts would come the New South movement and, with it, the final downfall of the plantation system and the beginnings of social justice for the freed slaves.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Author: United States. Public Health Service
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Author: United States. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Author: Royal and Select Masters (Masonic order). Grand Council of Kentucky
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
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