PPT Slide
�There was virtually no evidence that the war and Reconstruction led to a �revolution in land titles,� or to the �downfall of the old planter class.� ...
�The persistence and tenacity of this landholding elite throughout the war and Reconstruction laid the basis for their continued hegemony in the 1870s and 1880s. As a consequence the South took what [Barrington] Moore has described as the Prussian road t