Conflict and collaboration: Yeomen, slaveholders, and politics in the antebellum South

Social History

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 273-298

  Watson, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0347150366     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: 14701200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03071028508567627     Document Type: Article

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