Plain Folk of the Old South
1949
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Livre de Frank Lawrence Owsley · 1949
Genre : HistoirePlain Folk of the Old South was the first book to systematically lay to rest the myth of the antebellum South's division into three classes--planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials--firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists, church records, and county records including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports--to reconstruct carefully and accurately the prewar South's large and significant... Voir plus