[Introduction to] The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

Authors

Edward L. Ayers, University of RichmondFollow
John C. Willis

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Description

The chapters in this volume explore diverse scenes of nineteenth-century Virginia: the big house and the slave quarters, small farms and battlefields, freed slaves in the country and freed slaves in the city, dark coal mines and brightly illuminated caverns, raucous political rallies and genteel meetings of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Each essay offers a new perspective on a past which refuses to fit familiar ways of thinking about the nation and the South.

ISBN

9780813913223

Publication Date

1991

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

City

Charlottesville, Virginia

Keywords

Nineteenth-century Virginia, Southern United States, history, society

School

School of Arts and Sciences

Department

History

Disciplines

American Studies | United States History

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Recommended Citation

Ayers, Edward L., and John C. Willis, eds. The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-century Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991.