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