ABOUT THIS BOOK

This groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like slavery, in which workers had little control over their own labor. In arguing for both change and continuity, Moneyhon reconciles contemporary accounts of the war's effects while addressing ongoing debates within the historical literature.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Carl H. Moneyhon is professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His books include Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (Texas A & M, 1980), Arkansas and the New South (Arkansas, 1997), and Historical Atlas of Arkansas (Oklahoma, 1992). With Bobby Roberts, he is series editor of the Civil War photography series Portraits of Conflict (Arkansas).

REVIEWS

"Its smooth narrative style and revisionist interpretations of such key topics as slavery, emancipation, and Radical Reconstruction will guarantee it a place as a standard history of an important, if often slighted, state. . . . Moneyhon's discussion of the war years is one of the best short treatments available for any southern state." —Arkansas Historical Quarterly

"A major contribution to nineteenth-century historiography." —American Historical Review

"Students of both southern and national history will welcome Moneyhon's study. The research is sound, and excellent maps and informative tables enhance the text." —Southwestern Historical Quarterly

TABLE OF CONTENTS







INTRODUCTION        1

PART I: ANTEBELLUM ARKANSAS
   1. ECONOMIC LIFE    13
   2. ARKANSAS SOCIETY    35
   3. SLAVERY AND SLAVES    59
   4. POLITICAL POWER    75

PART II: THE CIVIL WAR YEARS
   5. CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS     101
   6. ARMED CONFLICT AND SOCIAL CHANGE:
        Arkansas and the Impact of Military Operations  124
   7. THE UNION ARMY AND THE FREEDMEN:
        Building Black Society  142
   8. RECONSTRUCTION OF LOYAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT:
        Lincoln, the Army, and Arkansas Loyalists  156

PART III: POSTWAR ARKANSAS

   9. ARKANSAN SOCIETY AT THE WAR'S END         175
  10. RECONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL POWER:
        Arkansas Politics, 1865-1868  190
  11. RESTRICTIONS ON BLACK FREEDOM, 1865-1867:
        From Slavery to Tenantry  207
  12. EMERGENCE OF THE POSTWAR ECONOMY:
        The Triumph of Cotton and Its Impact  222
  13. RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND REDEMPTION,
        1867-1874  243

CONCLUSION: Cotton, Landlords, and Democrats  264

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