Confederate Charleston
Confederate Charleston

Author: Robert N. Rosen

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 087249991X

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The Cradle of Secession's illustrious Civil War experience.

The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind

Author: Merrill D. Peterson

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780813918518

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Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson shows how the public attitude toward Jefferson has always paralleled the political climate of the time; the complexities of the man, his thoughts, and his deeds being viewed only in fragments by later generations. He explains how the ideas of Jefferson have been distorted, defended, pilloried, or used by virtually every leading politician, historian, and intellectual. Through most of our history, political parties have engaged in an ideological tug-of-war to see who would wear "the mantle of Jefferson."

Slavery in White and Black
Slavery in White and Black

Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1139475045

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Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.