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"Katharine and R.J. Reynolds reveals the broad economic, social, cultural, and political changes that were the backdrop to the Reynoldses' lives. Portraying a New South shaped by tensions between rural poverty and industrial transformation, white working-class inferiority and deeply entrenched racism, and the solidification of a one-party political system, [Michele] Gillespie offers a masterful life-and-times biography of these important North Carolinians."--Publisher's web site

"Essays consider the role of innovative technologies in industries across the South, including steamboats and shipping in the lower Mississippi valley; textile manufacturing in Georgia, Arkansas, and South Carolina; coal mining in Virginia; sugar planting and processing in Louisiana; the electrification of the Tennessee valley; and telemedicine in contemporary Arizona" - Provided by publisher

"Essays analyzing the economic evolution of the American South from the late colonial period to World War I and beyond. Examines the South in respect to long-held assumptions about industrialization and productivity and draws comparisons to the larger Atlantic and world economy"--Provided by publisher

These 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the lives of a wide range of women - nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants - in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women-women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its positive impact on women's education-for white and black alike- beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Legal and Extralegal Dimensions of Race Relations -- Chapter 1: "A Vile, Immoral, and Profligate Course of Life": Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Laws in Antebellum Georgia -- Chapter 2: The Lynching of Slaves: Race, Law, and the White Community in the Antebellum South -- Part II: The Advent of the Market Economy and the Agricultural World -- Chapter 3: Frontier Capitalism: Market Migration to Rural Central Missouri, 1815-1860 -- Chapter 4: "Anything . . . That Would Pay": Yeoman Farmers and the Nascent Market Economy on the Antebellum Plantation Frontier -- Chapter 5: "Chased Out on the Slippery Ice": Rural Wage Laborers in Baltimore's Hinterlands, 1815-1860 -- Part III: The Rise of the Middle Classes -- Chapter 6: Professionalization and the Southern Middle Class -- Chapter 7: Education and Professionals in the Old South: Schooling's Impact on Career and Social Class -- Chapter 8: Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South -- Chapter 9: "In Pursuit of Their Livelihood": Credit and Debt Relations Among Natchez Planters in the 1820s -- Contributors -- Index.