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How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885
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How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885 Paperback - 2004

by Jonathan M. Bryant

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In this story of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Bryant follows one Georgia county's transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.

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The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.

Emancipated slaves made up two-thirds of the county's population at the end of the Civil War, and thanks to an able, charismatic, and politically active leadership, they enjoyed early success in pressing for their rights. But their gains, says Bryant, were only temporary, because the white elite retained control of the legal system and used it effectively against blacks. Law also helped shape the course of economic change as, for example, postbellum laws designed to benefit the new commercial elite ensured poverty for most of the county's small farmers, both black and white, by relegating them to the status of sharecroppers and tenants. As a result, the county's wealth, though greatly diminished in the postbellum years, remained concentrated in the hands of a small elite.

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In March 1848 the Greene County Inferior Court accepted Atharates Atkinson's and David Demarest's plans for a new county courthouse.

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The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, the legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.

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  • Title How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885
  • Author Jonathan M. Bryant
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press
  • Publication date 2004-10-31
  • ISBN 9780807856147 / 0807856142
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1420
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Georgia
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95-23506
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.861

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  • Ingram Advance, 03/01/2005, Page 107

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Jonathan M. Bryant is associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University.
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