A Year In the South 1865
A Year In The South 1865 traces the lives of four Americans: John Robertson (former Confederate solider), Cornelia McDonald (widow of a Confederate solider), Louis Hughes (former slave), and Sam Agnew (preacher and son of a southern planter) as they live out the year of 1865 and the events leading up to and after the death of the confederacy. It follows four people from completely different backgrounds and entirely different paths as the War Between the States unfolded. No matter the social class or the color of their skin all four people had to deal with similar struggles as they fought to survive. Though the war brought constant turmoil hope could be found within the ashes of a damaged nation.
Living in the mid nineteenth century was difficult enough as a married woman but with …show more content…
Even after they agreed to pay them wages, the slaves were lazy and did not care much for the chores that needed to be preformed on the farm. They newly freed blacks had wanted freedom their whole lives and with the end of the war came that opportunity. They new little about how to use that freedom and their inability to find a balance between freedom and holding a job would trouble the South in the coming years. This would plague Sam and his family much of 1865 because the drought and the poor workers lead to them being unable to grow a decent crop. The Confederate government put just as much or even more stress on the local population then the Union army. The Civil War and the policies implemented afterward gutted the south and those living in it, this lead to great animosity and hatred between neighbors and ethnic groups. It completely changed the dynamic in the South leading people to abandon the old way of thinking and forcing them to embrace the change that they were being forced upon
A Year In The South 1865 traces the lives of four Americans: John Robertson (former Confederate solider), Cornelia McDonald (widow of a Confederate solider), Louis Hughes (former slave), and Sam Agnew (preacher and son of a southern planter) as they live out the year of 1865 and the events leading up to and after the death of the confederacy. It follows four people from completely different backgrounds and entirely different paths as the War Between the States unfolded. No matter the social class or the color of their skin all four people had to deal with similar struggles as they fought to survive. Though the war brought constant turmoil hope could be found within the ashes of a damaged nation.
Living in the mid nineteenth century was difficult enough as a married woman but with …show more content…
Even after they agreed to pay them wages, the slaves were lazy and did not care much for the chores that needed to be preformed on the farm. They newly freed blacks had wanted freedom their whole lives and with the end of the war came that opportunity. They new little about how to use that freedom and their inability to find a balance between freedom and holding a job would trouble the South in the coming years. This would plague Sam and his family much of 1865 because the drought and the poor workers lead to them being unable to grow a decent crop. The Confederate government put just as much or even more stress on the local population then the Union army. The Civil War and the policies implemented afterward gutted the south and those living in it, this lead to great animosity and hatred between neighbors and ethnic groups. It completely changed the dynamic in the South leading people to abandon the old way of thinking and forcing them to embrace the change that they were being forced upon