Download or read book Yankee Town, Southern City written by Steven Elliot Tripp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on accounts of people's everyday experience, demonstrates that no one group was able to maintain control of the social structure in the Virginia city during the four overlapping but distinct events of Secession, Civil War, black emancipation, and Reconstruction. Particularly focuses on how blacks and lower- class whites defied the elite's prescription for race relations to express their frustration with elite rule. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR