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University of Richmond

Post-Civil War

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Why Were The Railroads The "Contested Terrain" Of Race Relations In The Postwar South?, Edward L. Ayers Jan 2002

Why Were The Railroads The "Contested Terrain" Of Race Relations In The Postwar South?, Edward L. Ayers

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Most of the debates about race relations focused on the railroads of the New South. Travel was a different story, for members of both races had no choice but to use the same railroads. As the number of railroads proliferated in the 1880s, as the number of stations quickly mounted, as dozens of counties got on a line for the first time, as previously isolated areas found themselves connected to towns and cities with different kinds of black people and different kinds of race relations, segregation became a matter of statewide attention.


The South, The West, And The Rest, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1994

The South, The West, And The Rest, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

A response to the essay, Constructed Province: History and the Making of the Last American West by David M. Emmons. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.


Baptized In Blood: The Religion Of The Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers Jan 1983

Baptized In Blood: The Religion Of The Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 by Charles Reagan Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.