Dueling cultures, damnable legacies : southern violence and white supremacy in the Civil War era /
"Focusing on the town of Edgefield, South Carolina, this book proposes a culture of 'righteous honor' as a framework through which to understand the antebellum defense of slavery, secession, and civil war, as well as resistance to postwar emancipation and Reconstruction"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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Colección: | Nation divided.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Edgefield, South Carolina, as the Birthplace of Southern Righteous Honor
- Toward a New Southern Ideology. Honor: From Colonial Virility to Antebellum Refinement ; Piety: The Ascent of Evangelical Protestantism ; Righteous Honor: Merging the Ethics of Honor and Piety in the Early Antebellum Period
- Righteous Honor in Action. Moral Failings: Exorcising Inner Demons during the Sectional Crisis ; The Conundrum of Slavery: Sanctioning Violence on Moral Grounds ; 1856: Righteous Honor Triumphant ; The Civil War and Reconstruction: Violent Conflict as Divine Contest
- Epilogue: The Damnable Legacies of Righteous Honor.