Rich Man's War
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Rich Man's War

Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rich Man's War

Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

About this book

In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.

This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite.

The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue: Sooner Than All Lincolndom
  5. 1. Not One Foot Was Owned by a Poor Man
  6. 2. I Don't Want Any War
  7. 3. For the Benefit of the Aristocrats
  8. 4. What Will Become of the Women and Children?
  9. 5. Fighting the Rich Men's Fight
  10. 6. Us Is Gonna Be Free
  11. 7. I Say Peace
  12. Epilogue: Teach Them Their Places
  13. Appendices
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index