Political Culture In The Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900

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Bond (history, U. of Southern Mississippi) traces the social elite of white Mississippians, arguing that although the Civil War, emancipation, and industrialization significantly modified the social ethic, it was ultimately forged on the principle of unification among whites and suppression of class conflict through racism. He shows how white Southerners sought to continue the antebellum ethic through the share-cropping system, the crop-lien law, and violence. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.