Alabama's Class Politics Through The Civil War Crisis -- And Its Echoes

Authors

Michael W. Fitzgerald

Abstract

In an overview of the role of "poor whites" in Alabama's political development, and of the non-slaveholding majority of whites specifically, one cannot define a simple pattern. But two broad factors structured Alabama's antebellum evolution. The first is the commitment to racial supremacy across a....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.20.1.02

Recommended Citation

Fitzgerald, Michael W. (2018) "Alabama's Class Politics Through The Civil War Crisis -- And Its Echoes," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.20.1.02
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol20/iss1/21