... readers’ actions. Review readers become as important as De Bow because they offered him an outlet for new ideas and innovations. De Bow James Dunwoody Brownson J D B entrepreneurs New South Creed slavery urban development agriculture antebellum South Civil War De Bow’s Review Old...

...This book focuses on what historians have come to call the “middling sort”, the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying...

... Presbyterians antebellum south temperance movement ON THE EVENING OF JULY 30, 1907, a spirit of revelry swept over the evangelical Christians of Atlanta, Georgia. Hundreds celebrated around the statue of Henry Grady, the famed post–Civil War booster of economic development in the New South. Lula Ansley...

... A Pickensville SC Tabb slaveowner Third Maine Infantry USA Union POWs rescue of Madison OH Ohio Parker John Rachel runaway Rankin John Ripley OH African Americans Oakes James slavery Slavery Antebellum South Grapevine telegraph Resistance to slavery Underground Railroad Slave insurrection Slave...

... and reading materials that idealized the antebellum South, especially regarding race and gender roles. In these books, African American men were portrayed as either a “Coon,” “Sambo” or “Uncle Tom” – all three stereotypes represent black men as lazy, easily frightened, inarticulate, and unintelligent...

...This is the first book-length study of enslaved men and masculinity in the antebellum South. It examines the close relationships shared among enslaved men and argues that the lives of these men were intertwined. Across the antebellum South, enslaved men created an all-male subculture, engaging...

...This chapter examines the political economy and the merchant families of the antebellum American South. It explores how commerce distinguished southern merchant families and their culture in the antebellum South and describes the various social classes that composed southern society. It explains...

... Jacobs Harriet apprenticeships Austin slave carpenter Bill slave carpenter Frank slave carpenter Slavery Slave labor Antebellum South Plantation Southern industry Skilled work This chapter examines the everyday work spaces of enslaved men across the antebellum South. Enslaved men spent most...

... Pleasant J W Norris slave Welborn Aaron Willis executed slave thief Hundreds Plantation VA father son relationships Slavery Antebellum South Patrol gangs Patrollers Hunting Theft Slaveholders across the South sought to locate enslaved people in plantation space and control their mobility...

... Still William Thompson John Zip James Smith’s friend Brown Henry Drew Benjamin Kentucky Liberator Lockhart Dan Josiah Mason County KY Talbert Louis Slavery Antebellum South Male friendship Friendship Resistance to slavery Slave runaways Some of the most meaningful and satisfying...

... and characterizes the antebellum merchant in southern society and the merchant family in the antebellum south. It also discusses the experiences of the merchant-soldiers and the conditions of the merchant family after the fall of the Confederacy. Memphis Tenn merchants Semmes Benedict Semmes Jorantha Jordan...

... Mary Chapel Hill N C Milledge Annette North Carolina Vicksburg Miss merchant family antebellum South American South merchant culture family values materialism paternalism racism The family was the center of southern merchant culture. The ties between husband and wife, parent and child...

...This book explores the expulsion and enslavement of free people of color in the antebellum South. It considers why Southern states moved towards expelling and enslaving free blacks in the 1850s, and it situates these legislative debates within the context of a growing number of restrictions imposed...