PDF African American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era by Marvin P. Dawkins; Graham Kinloch in History

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Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War; this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one; military or civilian. Mobley touches on the experiences of everyone on the home front-white and black; male and female; rich and poor; young and old; native and foreign born. He looks at health; agriculture; industry; transportation; refugees city life; religion; education; culture families; personal relationships; and public welfare. In so doing; he offers his perspective on how much the will of the people contributed to the final defeat of the Southern cause.Although no single experience was common to all Southerners; a great many suffered poverty; dislocation; and heartbreak. For African Americans; however; the war brought liberation from slavery and the promise of a new life. White women; too; saw their lives transformed as wartime challenges gave them new responsibilities and experiences. Mobley explains how the Confederate military draft; heavy taxes; and restrictions on personal freedoms led to widespread dissatisfaction and cries for peace among Southern folk. He describes the Confederacy as a region of divided loyalties; where pro-Union and pro-Confederate neighbors sometimes clashed violently. This readable; one-volume account of life behind the lines will prove particularly useful for students of the conflict.