Southern Plantation Owners After The Civil War
The civil war had harsh economic ramifications on southern farms and plantations.
Southern plantation owners after the civil war. After the civil war, the plantation regained its preeminence, producing 1.2 million pounds of rice. I really wonder what really happened to the rich plantation owners after the civil war. Although olmsted abhorred slavery, his accounts were objective and accepted by most southern critics as accurate depictions of plantation life.
After the civil war plantation owners found it hard to adjust to not having slaves, or power over their slaves. The education system in the south had virtually disappeared, along with the old plantation system. Birkbeck wood and major james e.
Southern cotton production in 1870 was half what it was in 1860. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the civil war. They began to conspire, through the political process, to render the thirteenth amendment ineffectual in protecting african americans.
The southern slave economy permitted a small number of wealthy planters to accumulate extraordinary fortunes. Congressman and 28th governor of georgia I've recently come across some figures for this discussion.
I tried to find answers to my questions with only partial success. (others went to such places as cuba, mexico. After the civil war and the freeing of the slaves, southern plantation owners lost their workers.
Most of the battles were fought in the south, destroying a lot of the land. The 1860 census data show that the median wealth of the richest 1% of southerners was more than three times higher than for the richest 1% of northerners. A plantation included many other buildings: