Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Curl, Donald W.

Abstract

This was written as a beginning study of the relationships between blacks and poor whites during Reconstruction. The heritage of slavery is discussed as a prerequisite for understanding later developments. A brief synopsis of Reconstruction is included. The last chapters concern the actual relations between blacks and poor whites. Reasons for the inability of these two groups to ally and cooperate lie in the low opinion each had for the other and the inability of poor whites to allow the Negro a measure of equality. For the poor white the Negro was too much a threat as an equal. As a result violence, intimidation and suppression were practiced by poor whites against blacks and their white Republican allies, until the South was finally redeemed by white Democrats and southern demagogues.

Extent

191 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13492

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