The origins of the southern middle class, 1800-1861
By: Jonathan Daniel Wells.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Middle class -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- Social conditions; Southern States -- Economic conditions
Description: With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-298) and index.