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Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower
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Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley Hardback - 1999

by David Williams

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In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in 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 across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.

This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich 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, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent 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 was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

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  • Title Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
  • Author David Williams
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, US
  • Publication date 1999-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780820320335 / 0820320331
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.13 x 1.06 in (23.50 x 15.57 x 2.69 cm)
  • Age range 13 to UP years
  • Grade levels 8 - UP
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Civil War,, Georgia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98020312
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.8

About the author

David Williams is a professor of history at Valdosta State University in Georgia.

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