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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Yale Univ Pr
Publication date
October 1, 1982
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780300028829
ISBN-10
0300028822
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$13.00
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Documents the efforts of Northern businessmen, employing freed slaves and assesses the new planters' impact on the Southern postwar economy
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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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Reprint edition from Yale Univ Pr (October 1, 1982)
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