Includes bibliographical references and index.

The business of justice : merchants in the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and arbitration in the 1780s and 1790s / Sally E. Hadden -- Strangers in the South : Charleston's merchants and middle-class values in the early republic / Jennifer L. Goloboy -- Bonds of marriage and community : social networks and the development of a commercial middle class in antebellum South Carolina / Amanda Reece Mushal -- Middle-class benevolent societies in antebellum Norfolk, Virginia / John G. Deal -- Running Southern manufactories : the antebellum origins of managerial professions / Susanna Delfino -- Three faces of the Southern middle class : the Aikin brothers in the Old Southwest / Angela Lakwete -- Born of the aristocracy? : professionals with planter and middle-class origins in late antebellum South Carolina / Jennifer R. Green -- Navigating "the muddy stream of party politics" : sectional politics and the Southern bourgeoisie / Frank Towers -- The human and financial capital of the Southern middle class, 1850-1900 / Martin Ruef -- Reconstructing the Southern middle class : professional and commercial Southerners after the Civil War / Jonathan Daniel Wells -- Manufacturers and rural culture in the Reconstruction-era upcountry / Bruce W. Eelman -- Of culture and conviction : African American women nonfiction writers and the gendered definitions of class / Sonya Ramsey -- Epilogue : middle-class masters? / James Oakes.

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