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Rich Man’s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

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In Rich Man’s War historian David Williams makes a speciality of the Civil War revel in of people within 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 around the South, ultimately leading to Confederate defeat.

This conflict used to be so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War used to be “a wealthy 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, alternatively, the higher classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to forestall 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 used to be supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

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