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At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After all these family breadwinners marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state rose dramatically. This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts due to poverty at home.

Written as a case study of the causes of the Alabama miner's strike in 1894, this book explains how during an economic depression period, the strong trade union of the United Mineworkers of Alabama was founded and it was this that became instrumental in the coal miners and railway worker's strike.

An outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. The book supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident.

During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions were dominated by whites. This is the story of former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner who refused to accept a society so structured. Intelligent, physically imposing and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race.