| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy after the Civil War. By Elizabeth Lee Thompson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xx, 198 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2624-0.)

In this carefully crafted work, Elizabeth Lee Thompson examines the 1867 federal bankruptcy act and its effects in the South, from its enactment in March 1867—at the same time that Congress imposed Radical Reconstruction on the South—until its 1878 repeal. Her primary goal is to challenge two ideas held by many contemporaries and later scholars about the act: that it was a failure, and that it was universally opposed by white southerners, who, adhering to states' rights theory, equated it with Radical Reconstruction and thus saw it as an unwarranted federal intrusion into southern affairs.

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