Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society
Subtitle: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780819561633
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A slaveholding republic.; title: Prologue : The land of cotton; title: Slavery and liberty; title: The underlife of slavery; title: Portents of class division; title: Ligaments of community; title: A war for liberty and slavery.; title: Prologue : In the midst of a revolution; title: Strains of war; title: The captives set free; title: Appendix A : Definitions, procedures, and methods; title: Appendix B : Additional tables; title: Essay on sources