This seminar investigates a variety of postbellum transitions in the United States South, as whites grudgingly relinquished slaveholding, experimented with less restrictive labor systems, and accepted limited civil and social equality with African Americans. Unlike traditional treatments of the era -- which limit their focus to political issues before 1878 -- Reconstructing the South also considers changing modes of economic and social life and concludes with the establishment of the Solid South in 1902.
This course was first offered in the Advent 1999 semester.
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