Columns:: Essays examine plight of Southern Unionists

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Columns::August 27, 2001

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Essays examine plight of Southern Unionists

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University of Georgia Press

Enemies of the Country profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most Southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority. Edited by UGA professor of history John Inscoe and Robert Kenzer of the University of Richmond, Enemies of the Country includes an essay by UGA’s University Professor of History and Higher Education Thomas Dyer.
With one exception, these featured individuals were white, but they otherwise represent a wide spectrum—Southerners, immigrants and Northerners, affluent and poor, farmers and merchants, politicians and journalists, slaveholders and non-slaveholders.
Together the portraits underscore the variety of Unionist identities and motives. For example, many Southern Unionists shared basic social and political assumptions with white Southerners who supported the Confederacy, including an abhorrence of emancipation.
Southern Unionists are shown here to be far more complex and colorful than previously acknowledged.

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