In 1865, the Confederacy passed into history, but its ideological cornerstone survived. War had ended slavery, but war had not ended Southern planters' attachment to it. This is a history of that moment when planters became masters without slaves.
In 1865, the Confederacy passed into history, but its ideological cornerstone survived. War had ended slavery, but war had not ended Southern planters' attachment to it. This is a history of that moment when planters became masters without slaves.
Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prizewinning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in...
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