About the Author

Adam I. P. Smith is a Lecturer in American History at University College London.

Reviews

This is an important study that adds to the growing literature exploring the complex nature of the antebellum South's non-elite white majority. Mark V. Wetherington, The Journal of American History Copperheads [is a] scholarly book - though uniformly well written, [it] is analytically fine-grained, rooted in archival evidence, and driven by argument rather than characters. Still, given the current political climate, [it] might interest a broad audience. Ari Kelman, TLS