Strickland, Jeffery Glenn, 1970-

Unequal freedoms : ethnicity, race, and white supremacy in Civil War-era Charleston / Jeff Strickland ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource - Southern dissent .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Racial and ethnic diversity in the urban South -- Slavery and urban life -- Antebellum municipal politics and social control -- Postwar wage labor and petty capital formation -- Racial and ethnic relations during reconstruction -- The German schuetzenfest and the culture of white supremacy -- Postwar municipal politics and the failure of reconstruction -- Conclusion.

Focusing on Charleston, South Carolina, Jeff Strickland examines the ways that race, ethnicity, and class shaped the political economy of this vital Southern city during the second half of the nineteenth century.



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African Americans--History.--South Carolina--Charleston
African Americans--Social conditions.--South Carolina--Charleston
White supremacy movements--History.--South Carolina--Charleston
Racism--History.--South Carolina--Charleston


Electronic Books.

F279 / .U547 2015