An Old Creed For The New South

Author : John David Smith
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328444
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Old Creed for the New South written by John David Smith and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Old Creed for the New South:Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. Smith draws extensively on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches to counter the belief that debates over slavery ended with emancipation. After the Civil War, Americans in both the North and the South continued to debate slavery’s merits as a labor, legal, and educational system and as a mode of racial control. The study details how white Southerners continued to tout slavery as beneficial for both races long after Confederate defeat. During Reconstruction and after Redemption, Southerners continued to refine proslavery ideas while subjecting blacks to new legal, extralegal, and social controls. An Old Creed for the New South links pre– and post–Civil War racial thought, showing historical continuity, and treats the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws in new ways, connecting these important racial and legal themes to intellectual and social history. Although many blacks and some whites denounced slavery as the source of the contemporary “Negro problem,” most whites, including late nineteenth-century historians, championed a “new” proslavery argument. The study also traces how historian Ulrich B. Phillips and Progressive Era scholars looked at slavery as a golden age of American race relations and shows how a broad range of African Americans, including Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, responded to the proslavery argument. Such ideas, Smith posits, provided a powerful racial creed for the New South. This examination of black slavery in the American public mind—which includes the arguments of former slaves, slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, novelists, and essayists—demonstrates that proslavery ideology dominated racial thought among white southerners, and most white northerners, in the five decades following the Civil War.

Author : Paul M. Gaston
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603061444
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New South Creed written by Paul M. Gaston and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region -- attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South joined the Antebellum illusion as a genuine social myth, with a controlling power over the way in which their followers, in both North and South, perceived reality.

Author : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creed of the Old South, 1865-1915 written by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886830
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of the New South written by Edward L. Ayers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years.

Author : Patrick Gerster
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060250
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Southern History: The New South written by Patrick Gerster and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historical myths are actually false yet psychologically true. This title looks myth and reality as complementary elements in the historical record.

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036781
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Labor in the Old South written by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips's germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives. Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned Life and Labor in the Old South its place at the forefront of texts in the historiography of the antebellum South and African American slavery. The book is both a work of high scholarship and an example of the power of unexamined prejudices to affect such a work.

Author : Edward E. Baptist
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807853535
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating an Old South written by Edward E. Baptist and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptist examines the development of a plantation society in antebellum middle Florida and its effects on codes of masculinity among white settlers and planters, African American family structures and culture, and the formation of a sectional identity in the South.

Author : Henry Woodfin Grady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New South written by Henry Woodfin Grady and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James C. Klotter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461600960
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in the New South written by James C. Klotter and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.

Author : Richard H. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365305
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Southern Renaissance written by Richard H. King and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982-02-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perceptive study of a major cultural movement shows how Southern writers of 1930 t0 1955 tried to come to terms with Southern tradition, and discusses the resulting body of significant literature - fiction, poetry, memoirs, and historical writing.