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

Steven Elliot Tripp

Published by New York University Press 1997

Yankee Town, Southern City

Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg

Steven Elliot Tripp

Volume 14 in the series The American Social Experience

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784280.001.0001

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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.

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Tripp Steven Elliot :

Steven Elliott Tripp is Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Reviews

John Ingham:
A readable and interesting book that . . . provides a vivid portrait of the evolution of one southern city during this trying period. It is a most worthy contribution to the literature of the South and to urban history generally.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter one. Yankee town, southern city Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Chapter two. Religion, rum, and race: lower-class life in antebellum lynchburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter three. The many battles of lynchburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter four. "These troublesome times": rebuilding lynchburg after the war Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter five. "To crown our hearty endeavors": religion, race, and class, 1865-1872 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter six. "The mauling science": black and white violence and vigilance, 1865-1872 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Epilogue. Lynchburg’s centennial and beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Appendixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Selected bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: February 1, 1997
ISBN: 9780814784280