Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry : Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (332 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. "The Rising Generation": Commerce and Class in Antebellum Spartanburg -- Two. "We Must Manufacture": Textiles and Transportation in the Antebellum Era -- Three. "An Educated and Intelligent People Cannot Be Enslaved": The Struggle for Common School Reform -- Four. "Moral and Industrial Reform May Be United in One System": Modernizing Law and Morality -- Five. "We Have No Union Now": Secession and War -- Six. "To Pay Our Debts and Build Up Our Fallen Fortunes": Economic Recovery and Commercial Expansion in Postwar Spartanburg -- Seven. "A Great Commercial and Railroad Centre": Textiles, Transportation, and Trade in the Postwar Era -- Eight. "Educate Your Sons, They Will Build Reservoirs and Railroads": Race, Class, and Postwar Public Education -- Nine. "The Timely and Judicious Administration of the Laws": Law, Vigilantism, and the Business Community of Postwar Spartanburg -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation belt. Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution, Eelman finds that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen advocated a comprehensive vision for modernizing their region.