Origins of the New South 1877–1913

C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 examines the political and economic struggles in the American South following Reconstruction. The period saw the disenfranchisement of Black voters, influenced by conflicts between agrarian reformers and powerful economic interests. Woodward's work highlights how this era laid the groundwork for the "New South," a concept that emerged after the Civil War but was shaped by the political and social dynamics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This period was characterized by the consolidation of white supremacy and the establishment of systems like Jim Crow laws, which replaced slavery with new forms of racial control and economic subordination for African Americans.123