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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810746603321

Autore

Strickland Jeffery Glenn <1970->

Titolo

Unequal freedoms : ethnicity, race, and white supremacy in Civil War-era Charleston / / Jeff Strickland ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5086-3

0-8130-5541-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Southern Dissent

Disciplina

305.8009757/915

Soggetti

African Americans - South Carolina - Charleston - History

African Americans - South Carolina - Charleston - Social conditions

White supremacy movements - South Carolina - Charleston - History

Racism - South Carolina - Charleston - History

South Carolina Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Racial and ethnic diversity in the urban South -- Slavery and urban life -- Antebellum municipal politics and social control -- Postwar wage labor and petty capital formation -- Racial and ethnic relations during reconstruction -- The German schuetzenfest and the culture of white supremacy -- Postwar municipal politics and the failure of reconstruction -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on Charleston, South Carolina, Jeff Strickland examines the ways that race, ethnicity, and class shaped the political economy of this vital Southern city during the second half of the nineteenth century.