Joseph P Reidy: 2 books
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Central Georgia, 1800-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps,...
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental...