Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
- ISBN-10
- 0393055620
- ISBN-13
- 9780393055627
- Category
- Plantation life
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977-01-01
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- James L. Roark
Description
Winner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.
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