Contextual Resources

Burriss, Annelle Morton. Growth and Life of the Piedmont of Georgia, 1752-1775. University of South Carolina, 1934..

Memoirs of Georgia: Containing Historical Accounts of the State’s Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People. Atlanta: Southern Historical Association, 1895.

White, George. Statistics of the State of Georgia: Including an Account of Its Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History. Savannah: W. Thorne Williams, 1849.

Berry, Daina Ramey. “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Women in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Dunn, Cindy. Reinforcing Tradition and Initiating Change: The Civil War and Elite White Women in the Georgia Piedmont, 1850-1900. Decatur, GA: Agnes Scott College, 1991.

Montgomery, Rebecca S. The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Scott, Anne Firor, Mary Susan Ker, and Nicholas Philip Trist. Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century, Papers and Diaries. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1991.

Ferleger, Lou, and John D. Metz. Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Harris, J. William. “Crop Choices in the Piedmont Before and After the Civil War.” The Journal of Economic History 54 (n.d.): 526.

Chalmers, David Mark. Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965.

Chandler, Ray. The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2015.

Daly, John Patrick. The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022.

Kyriakoudes, Louis M., Michele Gillespie, and Susanna Delfino. Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011.

Merritt, Carole. “Slave Family and Household Arrangements in Piedmont Georgia.” Emory University, 1986.

Metz, John D. “Room for Improvement, but No Room for Progress”: The Material Basis of the Economic Transition in the Georgia Piedmont, 1880-1910, 2012.

Nash, Steven E., and Bruce E. Stewart, eds. Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.

Orser, Charles E. The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Slap, Andrew L. Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Domby, Adam. “War Within the States: Loyalty, Dissent, and Conflict in Southern Piedmont Communities, 1860-1876.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015.

Williams, David, Teresa Crisp Williams, and David Carlson. Plain Folk in a Rich Man’s War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.