Southern Plantation Owners After The Civil War. A plantation owner's house in wallace, la. By 1866, the radical republicans supported federal civil rights for freedmen, which president johnson opposed.
The second season of the uva law podcast, hosted by dean risa goluboff and vice dean leslie kendrick ’06, is focused on stories about. 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. Although olmsted abhorred slavery, his accounts were objective and accepted by most southern critics as accurate depictions of plantation life.
The north disbanded the confederate army and began a period known as the reconstruction.
Spring 1865, at the end of the civil war. The economic impact of the civil war. See more ideas about southern plantations, plantation homes, antebellum homes. We join olmsted's account as he accompanies an overseer on a tour of a large, prosperous plantation in mississippi:
