New Masters by Lawrence N Powell
New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North's 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 emigrants provided much of the capital that hard-pressed southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy; showing that these planters became both the catalyst that perpetuated the plantation system of servitude and debt, as well as became the reason behind the revitalization of the South. New Masters deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, Northern planters' motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns, and the planters' gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined-
The Road to Richmond
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Northern Character
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Abraham Lincoln
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This Distracted and Anarchical People
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The Limits of Dissent
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The Lincoln Forum
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For the Vast Future Also
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Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front
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Carl Schurz
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Melting Pot Soldiers
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"First Among Equals"
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From First to Last
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Shades of Green
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The Lincoln Assassination
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Deserter Country
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State of the Union
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Excommunicated from the Union
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Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army
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New Bedford's Civil War
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Liberty, Virtue, and Progress
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Affairs of Party
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Civil War America
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Exploring Lincoln
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Fear Was not in Him
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Lincoln and Leadership
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Sacred Debts
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Busy Hands
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Union Combined Operations in the Civil War
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The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
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New Perspectives on the Union War
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A Grand Terrible Drama
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Prang's Civil War Pictures
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Touched with Fire
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Freedom, Union, and Power
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So Conceived and So Dedicated
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Family War Stories
"His sensitive narrative nicely balances general discussions with telling anecdotes, and his interpretations are uniformly intelligent and generally convincing" -New York Times Book Review "Not only an important addition to Reconstruction literature but also a demonstration as to how American history should ideally be written... Anyone interested in Southern history, whether professional historian or casual reader, will find Powell's book difficult to lay aside until it has been read from start to finish." -American Historical Review
Lawrence N. Powell is Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is author of numerous books including Papers of Frederick Duglass and The Politics of Reconstruction.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780823218936 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823218937 |
| Title | New Masters |
| Author | Lawrence N Powell |
| Series | The North's Civil War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 1999-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 233 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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