"In 1860, the American South was a vast, wealthy region where a small minority had amassed great political power and enormous fortunes through a system of enslaved labor. By the end of 1865, that wealth and power had been shattered. In the Fall of the House of Dixie, the true stakes of the Civil War become clearer than ever before, as slaves battle for their freedom in the face of brutal reprisals; Abraham Lincoln and his party turn what began as a limited war for the Union into a crusade against slavery; and the slave owners grow even more desparate as their beloved social order is destroyed."
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