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In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law

In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law

Ranney, Joseph

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral LawRegional: South

ISBN10: 0275989720
ISBN13: 9780275989729
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Oct 30 2006
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic, and political stability in the wake of emancipation and wartime destruction, and how did the South come together with its former enemies in the North? Why did the South not slip back into chaos? This book holds the keys to the answers to these tantalizing questions.

Author Joseph Ranney explodes the myth of a unified South and exposes just how complex and fragile the postwar recovery was. The end of slavery and the emergence of a radically new social order raised a host of thorny legal issues: What place should newly freed slaves have in Southern society? What was the proper balance between states' rights and a newly powerful federal government? How could postwar economic distress be eased without destroying property rights? Should new civil rights be extended to women as well as blacks? Southern states addressed these issues in surprisingly different ways.

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