Loyalty and Loss : Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction Paperback / softback
by Margaret M. Storey
Part of the Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War series
Paperback / softback
Description
Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause.
Margaret M. Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union when their state seceded in 1861, and beyond.
Storey's extensive, groundbreaking research discloses a socioeconomically diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks.
By considering the years 1861-1874 as a whole, she clearly connects loyalists' sometimes brutal wartime treatment with their postwar behavior.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780807130223
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780807130223
