Mountain Masters: Slavery Sectional Crisis Western North Carolina - Softcover

Inscoe, John C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870499335 ISBN 13: 9780870499333

Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press, 1996

Synopsis

Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region - one so alienated and isolated from other parts of the South that, with the onset of the Civil War, highlanders opposed both secession and Confederate war efforts. In a multifaceted challenge to these basic assumptions about Appalachian society in the mid-nineteenth century, John Inscoe reveals new variations on the diverse motives and rationales that drove Southerners, particularly in the Upper South, out of the Union.
Mountain Masters vividly portrays the wealth, family connections, commercial activities, and governmental power of the slaveholding elite that controlled the social, economic, and political development of western North Carolina. In examining the role played by slavery in shaping the political consciousness of mountain residents, the book also provides fresh insights into the nature of southern class interaction, community structure, and master-slave relationships.

About this title

About the Author:

John C. Inscoe is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia and editor of The Georgia Historical Quarterly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0870499335
• ISBN 13: 9780870499333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368