The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of RuinThis groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like slavery, in which workers had little control over their own labor. In arguing for both change and continuity, Moneyhon reconciles contemporary accounts of the war's effects while addressing ongoing debates within the historical literature. |
Contents
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SLAVERY AND SLAVES | 59 |
POLITICAL POWER | 75 |
CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS | 101 |
ARMED CONFLICT AND SOCIAL CHANGE Arkansas and the Impact of Military Operations | 124 |
THE UNION ARMY AND THE FREEDMEN Building Black Society | 142 |
RECONSTRUCTION OF LOYAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT Lincoln the Army and Arkansas Loyalists | 156 |
RECONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL POWER Arkansas Politics 18651868 | 190 |
RESTRICTIONS ON BLACK FREEDOM 18651867 From Slavery to Tenantry | 207 |
EMERGENCE OF THE POSTWAR ECONOMY The Triumph of Cotton and Its Impact | 222 |
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND REDEMPTION 18671874 | 242 |
Cotton Landlords and Democrats | 264 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 271 |
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ARKANSAN SOCIETY AT THE WARS END | 175 |
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