How Long to Read The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors

How Long Does it Take to Read The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors by Elizabeth Lee Thompson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 first study of the operation of the 1867 Act, Elizabeth Lee Thompson challenges previous works, which maintain that nineteenth-century southerners uniformly opposed federal bankruptcy laws as threatening extensions of federal power. To the contrary, Thompson finds that southerners, faced with the war’s devastation, were more likely to file for bankruptcy than debtors in other parts of the country. The Act thus was the major piece of federal economic legislation that benefited southerners during Reconstruction. Thompson determines that because the vast majority of the Bankruptcy Act’s southern beneficiaries were propertied white men, the legislation served to stabilize and entrench the postwar economic--and thus social and political--power of the sector that included those who were recently leading secessionists and Confederates. Their participation in a federal process, through federal tribunals, during an era of intense white southern opposition to policies emanating from Washington reveals the complex interaction of states' rights ideology and self-interest. However, Thompson shows, white southerners ultimately sacrificed neither in relation to the Bankruptcy Act. After thousands had received economic relief through the statute and the number of filings had slowed to a trickle, southern congressmen supported the Act’s repeal in 1878.

How long is The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors?

The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors by Elizabeth Lee Thompson is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors aloud.

What Reading Level is The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors?

The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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