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Bitterly Divided The South's Inner Civil War
Williams, David Publisher: New Press, New York, USA Date Written: 01/01/2008 Year Published: 2008 Pages: 320pp ISBN: 978-1-59558-475-5 Dewey: 973.7/13 Resource Type: Book
Historian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
Abstract: Bitterly Divided shows that from the Confederacys very beginnings white Southerners were as likely to have opposed secession as supported it, and they undermined the Confederate war effort at nearly every turn. In just one of many telling examples in this rich and surprising narrative history, Williams shows that when planters grew too much cotton and tobacco and exempted themselves from the draft, plain folk called the conflict a rich mans war and rioted. Many formed armed anti-Confederate bands. Southern blacks, in what W.E.B. Du Bois called a general strike against the Confederacy, resisted in increasingly overt ways, escaped by the thousands, and forced a change in the wars direction that led to emancipation.
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