Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order?
Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.

Author: Steven Elliot Tripp
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.90w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780814782378

About the Author
Tripp, Steven Elliot: - Steven Elliott Tripp is Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.