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The Weight of Southern History-author

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Ward

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The Weight of Southern History-main ideas

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  • violent deaths of young black men in Mississippi
  • high unemployment, lots of drug use
  • history still impacts the present
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The Three Souths-author

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Reed

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The Three Souths-main ideas

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  • proud region with distinctive culture
  • highest rate of church membership and the highest homicide rate
  • Dixie, Southeast, Cultural South
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The Three Souths-Dixie

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  • old south
  • spread of cotton and slavery in early 1800’s
  • doesn’t exist anymore
  • poor after 1865
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The Three Souths-Southeast

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  • vibrant, dynamic, industrial
  • magnent for migration
  • smaller than dixie
  • barely existed before WWII
  • most striking change in race relations
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The Three Souths-Cultural South

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  • evokes pride and loyalty
  • influence of immigrants
  • blacks and whites have distinct but related cultures
  • includes southeast and southwest
  • culturally conservative
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Rethinking the Boundaries of The South-Authors

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Cooper and Knots

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Rethinking the Boundaries of the South-main ideas

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  • VA doesn’t feel southern anymore
  • Oklahoma/Kentucky were not part of confederacy but feel more southern
  • southern “otherness”
  • many competing definitions of the region
  • Mapped “dixie” and “southern”
  • southern core remains in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
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The Search for Southern Identity-author

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woodward

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The Search for Southern Identity-main ideas

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  • more comfortable being a southerner at home
  • south is still in the process of an economic and social revolution
  • thought of becoming indistinguishable has haunted minds of southerners
  • many will be tempted to reject “southern” if associated with segregation
  • south’s attempt to portray their past as positive was a result of guilt
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Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the US-author

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Fields

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Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the US-main ideas

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  • the “single race”
  • race is not genetically programmed so racial prejudice isn’t either
  • VA tobacco boom in 1620’s used English indentured servants
  • white yeomanry were majority of white free southerners and owned no slaves
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Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America-author

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Berlin

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Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America-main ideas

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-3 distinct slave systems: Northern non-plantation system, southern plantations system around Chesapeake bay, southern plantation system in Carolina and Georgia low country

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Out of the House of Bondage-author

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Glymph

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Out of the House of Bondage-main ideas

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  • planter women usually depicted as silent abolitionists and as allies of slaves
  • white women owned slaves and managed households
  • white women were subordinate to white men but far from victims of slave system
  • white women’s violence
  • white gender ideals clashed with white women’s domestic dominance
  • white women had to be both submissive and dominant
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Neighborhoods-author

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Kaye

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Neighborhoods-main ideas

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  • neighborhoods were quarters for every kind of fraternizing for slaves
  • neighborhoods similar but not identical
  • existed from Chesapeake to trans-mississippi west and everywhere in between in upper south and old southwest
  • during the war, bonds of neighborhoods loosened
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Gouge and Bite-author

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Gorn

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Gouge and Bite-main ideas

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  • brutal form of conflict in VA backcountry before revolution
  • boxing became an essential skill for all young va gentlemen
  • during end of 18th century, planter class stopped fighting to separate themselves as superior
  • aggressive self-assertion and manly pride were real marks of status
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Confessions of Edward Isham-main ideas

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  • born in GA

- fought all his life (main life events were fights)

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The Fight-author

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Longstreet

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The Fight-main ideas

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  • folktale about 2 men who fight but are friendly otherwise

- in GA

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The Republican Critique of the South-Author

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-Foner

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The Republican Critique of the South-main ideas

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  • Southern economy seemed stagnant to republicans
  • lots of republicans had first hand knowledge of southern conditions
  • some republicans thought blacks were naturally wasteful and lazy so unproductive
  • usually republicans believed slavery deprived blacks of education and incentive so they weren’t as productive
  • poor non slaveholding whites had no opportunity to rise on social skill (no middle class)
  • republicans wanted to move northerners into south to make them adjust their way of life
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The Brothers’ War-author

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McCurry

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The Brothers’ War-main ideas

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  • south needed complete unity in order to secede
  • SC seceded in 1860
  • fire-eaters were radical secessionists
  • 1860 association was a propaganda group in charleston
  • minute men formed to shadow political events and punish slaves
  • armed presence/political terror made it impossible for SC voters to support union
  • by end of 1861, NC, VA, MD, DE, AK, MS, KY, TN remained in union
  • Lincoln’s force bill pushed VA to secede
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The River of Dark Dreams-author

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Johnson

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The River of Dark Dreams-main ideas

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  • Americanization of the west: forced ethnic cleansing and racial pacification
  • Andrew Jackson negotiated treaties with Native American leadership through bribery, resulted in forced removal
  • idea that black slaves were biologically suited to perform agricultural duties in the Mississippi Valley
  • need for slaves in western region led to second middle passage
  • the expansion of the west relied on slavery
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The Radical Effort-author

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Barney

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The Radical Effort-main ideas

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  • radicals: integration of their ideology, social origins, relationship to the power structure of the slave south (fire eaters)
  • radicals were rash, extreme, without sympathy or popularity for the great mass of men
  • radicals were not a part of the planter class (outsiders)
  • their preaching of Southern nationalism and expansionism helped to convince southerners that only an Independent south could fulfill white ambitions for land and slaves and forestall a loss of racial control

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