03781oam 22005174a 450 991097456220332120251116213800.01-62511-043-X(CKB)4340000000018528(MiAaPQ)EBC4749934(OCoLC)964657353(MdBmJHUP)muse57512(BIP)57673300(BIP)54543870(EXLCZ)99434000000001852820160721d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA Southern Community in Crisis Harrison County, Texas 1850-1880 /by Randolph B. Campbell ; foreword by Andrew J. Torget ; with a new preface by the authorPaperback edition.Austin, [Texas] :Texas State Historical Association,2016.©20161 online resource (482 pages) illustrations, mapsOriginally published in 1983.1-62511-040-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.The antebellum community: The land and the people -- The agricultural economy -- The non-agricultural economy -- Community institutions and social life -- Slavery: the peculiar institution -- Antebellum political life: conflict within consensus -- Secession and Civil War: The secession crisis, 1860-1861 -- The community at war, 1861-1865 -- Theophilus and Harriet Perry: "war makes its widows by the thousand" -- Reconstruction: Presidential reconstruction: May, 1865-March, 1867 -- Congressional reconstruction, March, 1865-April, 1870 -- Republican government, 1870-1878 -- "Redemption," 1879-1880 -- Threshold of the "New South" -- Harrison County in 1880: change and continuity since 1850 -- Appendices: The Census samples of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 -- Non-heads of household in the population samples.Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes of disunion, the course of the war, and the bitter disputes that arose during restoration of the Union. Much less attention has been given to studying how ordinary people experienced the years from 1861 to 1876. What did secession, civil war, emancipation, victory for the United States, and Reconstruction mean at the local level in Texas? Exactly how much change--economic, social, and political--did the era bring to the focus of the study, Harrison County: a cotton-growing, planter-dominated community with the largest slave population of any county in the state? Providing an answer to that question is the basic purpose of A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 . First published by the Texas State Historical Association in 1983, the book is now available in paperback, with a foreword by Andrew J. Torget, one of the Lone Star State's top young historians.    Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)TexasCase studiesHarrison County (Tex.)Economic conditionsHarrison County (Tex.)Social conditionsHarrison County (Tex.)Politics and governmentReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)976.4/192Campbell Randolph B.1940-2022,1768148Torget Andrew J.1978-Texas State Historical Association,MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910974562203321A Southern Community in Crisis4474007UNINA