Title: How curious a land
First published: 1996
Description: The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, the legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.
Subjects: Agriculture, Economic conditions, History, Green county (ga.), Agriculture, united states
Places: Greene County (Ga.), Greene County, Georgia
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: F292.G7 B79 1996