War of Another Kind A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

by Durrill, Wayne K.

• ISBN13: 9780195060072
• ISBN10: 0195060075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-02-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county. He details struggles among planters, slaves, yeoman farmers, and landless white laborers, as well as a guerrilla war and a clash between two armies that, in the end, destroyed all that remained of the county's social structure. He examines the failure of a planter-yeoman alliance, and discusses how yeoman farmers and landless white laborers allied themselves against planters, but to no avail. He also shows how slaves, when refugeed upcountry, tried unsuccessfully to reestablish their prerogatives--a subsistence, as well as protection from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue the Beginnings of a Plantation Community	p. 3
Secession	p. 19
The Yeoman Challenge	p. 40
Removal: The First Crisis in Paternalism	p. 68
A Question of Sovereignty	p. 91
The Emancipation Proclamation: Beginnings of a Property War	p. 119
Refugeeing: The Second Crisis in Paternalism	p. 145
Guerrilla War	p. 166
The Battle of Plymouth	p. 186
Epilogue: the End of a Plantation Community	p. 211
Statistical Appendix	p. 229
Notes	p. 243
Bibliographic Note	p. 277
Index	p. 281
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