Title: One kind of freedom :
Authors: Ransom, Roger L.,; Sutch, Richard,; Sutch, Richard,
Date: 1977
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xix, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: H
Abstract: One Kind of Freedom examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery following the Civil War. The new edition of this economic history classic includes a new introduction by the authors and revised findings based on newly available data and statistical techniques.
Contents: What did freedom mean? -- The legacy of slavery -- The myth of the prostrate South -- The demise of the plantation -- Agricultural reconstruction -- Financial reconstruction -- The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly -- The trap of debt peonage -- The roots of Southern poverty.
Notes: Includes index. Issued with various printing dates.