The origins of the southern middle class, 1800-1861 /
Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery,...
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Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004. |
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