Civil War and Reconstruction in AlabamaWalter L. Fleming
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Walter L. Fleming
History
Book language: English
945 pages
A historical study of Alabama during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Walter L. Fleming examines the state's social, economic, and political conditions and the war's effects on Southern institutions. It is a detailed account for readers interested in nineteenth-century American history.
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Opening of the book
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMA CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMA BY WALTER L. FLEMING, Pƒ.D. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, AƄŧƿǵǪ LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LǵŠ. 1905 All rights reserved CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1905,
BΏ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1905.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
MY WIFE
MARY BOYD FLEMING
PREFACE
This work was begun some five years ago as a study of Reconstruction in Alabama. As the field opened it seemed to me that an account of ante-bellum conditions, social, economic, and political, and of the effect of the Civil War upon ante-bellum institutions would be indispensable to any just and comprehensive treatment of the later period. Consequently I have endeavored to describe briefly the society and the institutions that went down during Civil War and
Reconstruction. Internal conditions in Alabama during the war period are discussed at length; they are important, because they influenced seriously the course of Reconstruction. Throughout the work I have sought to emphasize the social and economic problems in the general situation, and accordingly in addition to a sketch of the politics I have dwelt at some length upon the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period. One point in particular has been stressed throughout the whole work, viz. the fact of the segregation of the races within the state—the blacks mainly in the central counties, and the whites in the northern and the southern counties. This division of
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