Feud Hatfields, Mccoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 |
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| Author:
| Waller, Altina L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-1770-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 1988 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Wetherington examines the local effects of the Civil War on a section of southern Georgia, in part of the region known as Wiregrass Country. The author looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk"--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--who feared that emancipation would encourage freed slaves to move from cotton plantations into the piney woods communities they had claimed for themselves.
Wetherington examines the local effects of the Civil War on a section of southern Georgia, in part of the region known as Wiregrass Country. The author looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk"--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--who feared that emancipation would encourage freed slaves to move from cotton plantations into the piney woods communities they had claimed for themselves.