Shattering the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy, historian James Oakes reveals them as having been just as entrepreneurial as their northern counterparts, committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. Oakes's pathbreaking analysis shows the Civil War as not a conflict of separate ideologies, but instead the split of a single system.

Published in 1921, this volume is a study of the Southern people who live in the mountain region of the South. Includes living conditions, pioneer routes of travel, home life, individualism and more.