Confederate Reckoning offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding events on the Confederate home front." The struggle for Southern independence, she shows, opened the door for the mobilization of two groups previously outside the political nation-white women of the nonslaveholding class and slaves. Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic "McCurry challenges us to expand our definition of politics to encompass not simply government but the entire public sphere. Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a fresh, bold take on the Civil War that every student of the conflict should read." Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Winner of the Merle Curti Award "McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
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