discussions of Quaker Belt Unionists, the inner civil war, and Reconstruction in North Carolina
NOTE FROM MODERATOR: On March 17, 2009, Renegade South published the essay, “Race and the ‘One Drop Rule’ in the Post-Reconstruction South,” which presented the story of Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina. […]
Note from Moderator: Phebe Crook belonged to the same North Carolina community of Unionist women that I’ve been researching and writing about for 25 years, as did Martha Sheets and Caroline, Sarah, and Clarinda […]
Note from Moderator: I recently visited Richard Phillips’s blog, “N.C. Buffalo Soldiers,” and wanted to share it with readers Vikki Bynum http://ncbuffaloes.wordpress.com/1st-and-2nd-north-carolina-union-veterans/ N.C. Buffalo Soldiers: 1st and 2nd North Carolina Union Volunteers […]
I returned from Falmouth/Fredericksburg Virginia last week, where I spoke on women in Civil War North Carolina. Two major topics of my paper were interracial relations before the war, and the Wesleyan […]
I want to let everyone know that Renegade South will be in slow-mode for the next few weeks. I am flying to Richmond on Saturday to give a talk in Falmouth, VA, […]
I’m excited to announce that my new book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, has been released! Click here to see its table of contents. To purchase a […]
When I wrote Unruly Women, (published 1992) I focused primarily on showing how the lives of nonslaveholding women–poor white, free black, and farm women–were impacted by living in a slaveholding society. I was particularly interested in […]
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