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The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy After the Civil War (Studies in the Legal History of the South) $12.95 Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly viewed as punitive toward the post–Civil War South, the Bankruptcy Act was a great benefit to southerners. In this … |



