Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900Many 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, fo |
Contents
The Idea of a Republic versus Democracy | 3 |
An Unpopular War and Poverty | 32 |
Internal War | 59 |
Reconstruction Resistance to White Democracy | 85 |
Reconstruction The Battle against Black Freedom | 113 |
Change and Repression 18681878 | 136 |
Unstable Dominance in a New South | 171 |
Leaders of the New South | 196 |
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