Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County 1834-1869
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xvi+ 424 pp. with index. Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious but even as that episode faded from national memory, the county could not escape the forces of change. In this study, the author links local and national history, explains how partisan loyalties developed, how white democracy flourshed in the late antebellum years, how secession sharply divided neighborhoods with few slaves from those with large plantations and how, following emacipation, former slaves challenged the perogatives of former slaveholders. Fine / fine. Item #E27119
ISBN: 9780813913858
Price: $22.50