New Masters: Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Lawrence N. Powell

Book Overview

New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the Norths efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts that northern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300022174
• ISBN13: 9780300022179
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"