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Title North Carolinians in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction / edited by Paul D. Escott
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Contents North Carolinian ambivalence : rethinking loyalty and disaffection in the Civil War Piedmont / David Brown -- A more rigorous style of warfare : Wild's Raid, guerrilla violence, and negotiated neutrality in northeastern North Carolina / Barton A. Myers -- Visions of freedom and civilization opening before them : African Americans search for autonomy during military occupation in North Carolina / Judkin Browning -- The order of nature would be reversed : soldiers, slavery, and the North Carolina gubernatorial election of 1864 / Chandra Manning -- To do justice to North Carolina : the war's end according to Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Zebulon B. Vance, and David L. Swain / John C. Inscoe -- Reconstruction and North Carolina women's tangled history with law and governance / Laura F. Edwards -- No longer under cover(ture) : marriage, divorce, and gender in the 1868 Constitutional Convention / Karin Zipf -- Different colored currents of the sea : reconstruction North Carolina, mutuality, and the political roots of Jim Crow, 1872-1875 / Paul Yandle -- The immortal Vance : the political commemoration of North Carolina's war governor / Steven E. Nash
Summary In nine essays, contributors address themes, such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North Carolinians today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- North Carolina
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans -- Segregation
African Americans -- Social conditions
Politics and government
Women -- Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Reconstruction
SUBJECT North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092491
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092497
North Carolina -- History -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092492
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092498
North Carolina -- Biography
Subject North Carolina
United States
North Carolina
Genre/Form Electronic book
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Escott, Paul D., 1947-
ISBN 9780807837269
0807837261
9781469601649
1469601648