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New Masters : Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction. / Lawrence N. Powell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The North's Civil WarPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823218943
  • 9780823296293
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/49
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- THE NORTH'S CIVIL WAR -- Contents -- Tables -- New Preface to NEW MASTERS -- Preface -- 1. "New Masters" -- 2. "A Short Road to Wealth" -- 3. Southern Expectations -- 4. The First Encounter -- 5. "The New Dispensation" -- 6. "Negro on the Brain" -- 7. A Question of Business -- Epilogue. ''The Best I Can Do'' -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index
Summary: New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North’s efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts that northern emigrants provided much of the capital that hard-pressed southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy; showing that these planters became both the catalyst that perpetuated the plantation system of servitude and debt, as well as became the reason behind the revitalization of the South. New Masters deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, Northern planters’ motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns, and the planters’ gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined.
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Frontmatter -- THE NORTH'S CIVIL WAR -- Contents -- Tables -- New Preface to NEW MASTERS -- Preface -- 1. "New Masters" -- 2. "A Short Road to Wealth" -- 3. Southern Expectations -- 4. The First Encounter -- 5. "The New Dispensation" -- 6. "Negro on the Brain" -- 7. A Question of Business -- Epilogue. ''The Best I Can Do'' -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index

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New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North’s efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts that northern emigrants provided much of the capital that hard-pressed southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy; showing that these planters became both the catalyst that perpetuated the plantation system of servitude and debt, as well as became the reason behind the revitalization of the South. New Masters deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, Northern planters’ motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns, and the planters’ gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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