Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war's aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to New for whites and African Americans alike. Historian William Link argues that this struggle defined the broader meaning of the Civil War in the modern South, with no place embodying the region's past and future more clearly than Atlanta.
Link frames the city as both exceptional -- because of the incredible impact of the war there and the city's phoenix-like postwar rise -- and as a model for other southern cities. He shows how, in spite of the violent reimposition of white supremacy, freedpeople in Atlanta built a cultural, economic, and political center that helped to define black America.
Link frames the city as both exceptional -- because of the incredible impact of the war there and the city's phoenix-like postwar rise -- and as a model for other southern cities. He shows how, in spite of the violent reimposition of white supremacy, freedpeople in Atlanta built a cultural, economic, and political center that helped to define black America.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469626551
ISBN13:9781469626550
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.87 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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