A review of The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, by Edward Isham,... more A review of The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, by Edward Isham, edited by Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasur
Any examination of race as a formative influence on the American South must first acknowledge the... more Any examination of race as a formative influence on the American South must first acknowledge the interpretation advanced decades ago by the putative founder of southern history as a field of study: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. A Georgia-born Progressive and author of the first scholarly account of slavery to gain widespread acceptance in the national academy, Phillips surveyed the otherwise wrenching journey from Old South to New and found continuity in the timeless commitment of white southerners to the common cause of white supremacy. Phillips insisted that the "central theme" of southern history was "a single resolve indomitably maintained" that the South "was and shall remain a white man's country."1 Long before the recent interpretive bent of cultural history refocused scholarly attention upon culturally and historically constructed definitions of race as critical factors shaping American society, Phillips posited a shared allegiance to white supremacy as the central theme of southern history and established an interpretation that would remain both influential and controversial for the remainder of the twentieth century.2 During the 1990s, practitioners of the new cultural history, influenced by anthropological research and the techniques of literary postmodernism, have maintained that most American historiography fails to account
... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the sout... more ... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the southern mind, though doubtless Poteat's championing of ... of a classy journalist's desire to dazzle the reader with attention-grabbing words and phrases: Tartuffe, gyneolatry, fair Athena, the lily ...
A review of Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers, by Shea... more A review of Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers, by Shearer Davis Bowma
The Old South "Solves" the Problem of Slavery Confederation would not join the new Union. A secon... more The Old South "Solves" the Problem of Slavery Confederation would not join the new Union. A second South Carolina delegate, former governor John Rutledge, warned his fellow delegates that "if the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is vain. The people of those states will never be such fools as to give up so important an interest." The Georgia delegate Abraham Baldwin claimed that his state too was "decided on this point," adding that Georgia viewed the slave trade question as of a "local nature," not a "national" matter.
A review of The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, by Edward Isham,... more A review of The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, by Edward Isham, edited by Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasur
Any examination of race as a formative influence on the American South must first acknowledge the... more Any examination of race as a formative influence on the American South must first acknowledge the interpretation advanced decades ago by the putative founder of southern history as a field of study: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. A Georgia-born Progressive and author of the first scholarly account of slavery to gain widespread acceptance in the national academy, Phillips surveyed the otherwise wrenching journey from Old South to New and found continuity in the timeless commitment of white southerners to the common cause of white supremacy. Phillips insisted that the "central theme" of southern history was "a single resolve indomitably maintained" that the South "was and shall remain a white man's country."1 Long before the recent interpretive bent of cultural history refocused scholarly attention upon culturally and historically constructed definitions of race as critical factors shaping American society, Phillips posited a shared allegiance to white supremacy as the central theme of southern history and established an interpretation that would remain both influential and controversial for the remainder of the twentieth century.2 During the 1990s, practitioners of the new cultural history, influenced by anthropological research and the techniques of literary postmodernism, have maintained that most American historiography fails to account
... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the sout... more ... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the southern mind, though doubtless Poteat's championing of ... of a classy journalist's desire to dazzle the reader with attention-grabbing words and phrases: Tartuffe, gyneolatry, fair Athena, the lily ...
A review of Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers, by Shea... more A review of Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers, by Shearer Davis Bowma
The Old South "Solves" the Problem of Slavery Confederation would not join the new Union. A secon... more The Old South "Solves" the Problem of Slavery Confederation would not join the new Union. A second South Carolina delegate, former governor John Rutledge, warned his fellow delegates that "if the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is vain. The people of those states will never be such fools as to give up so important an interest." The Georgia delegate Abraham Baldwin claimed that his state too was "decided on this point," adding that Georgia viewed the slave trade question as of a "local nature," not a "national" matter.
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