Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?
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Dependency-- Political aspects-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
Patron and client-- Political aspects-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
Political culture-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
Populism-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)-- North Carolina
North Carolina, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects
North Carolina, Politics and government, 1861-1865
North Carolina, Politics and government, 1865-1950
North Carolina, Social conditions, 19th century
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects