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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 0393312887 (0-393-31288-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 039332494X (0-393-32494-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The American South : A Historyby Cooper, William J., Jr., Thomas E. TerrillISBN 0394589483 (0-394-58948-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Burden of Southern Historyby Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0807118915 (0-8071-1891-5)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burden of Southern History'Book summary:C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's--and Woodward's--place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward--wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.
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Confederate Nation: 1861-1865by Emory M. ThomasISBN 0061319651 (0-06-131965-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolinaby Manisha SinhaISBN 0807848840 (0-8078-4884-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old Southby Grady McWhineyISBN 0817304584 (0-8173-0458-4)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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A Defense of Virginia and the Southby R.L. DabneyISBN 0873779290 (0-87377-929-0)
Hardcover, Hess Pubns
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Diary from Dixieby Mary Boykin Miller ChesnutISBN 0674202910 (0-674-20291-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Diary from Dixieby Mary B. Chestnut, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, Isabella D. MartinISBN 0517182661 (0-517-18266-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary from Dixie'Book summary:This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political figures. [via]
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Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Cultureby Peter ApplebomeISBN 0812926536 (0-8129-2653-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 13, 14, 15by Carol WellsISBN 0788406000 (0-7884-0600-0)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 16, 17, 18by Carol WellsISBN 0788406701 (0-7884-0670-1)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 19, 20, 21, & 22by Carol WellsISBN 078840704X (0-7884-0704-X)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 23, 24, 25, 26by Carol WellsISBN 0788408887 (0-7884-0888-7)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 27, 28, and 29by Carol WellsISBN 0788410733 (0-7884-1073-3)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 30 and 31by Carol WellsISBN 0788413171 (0-7884-1317-1)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina Deed Books 32 and 33by Carol WellsISBN 0788415549 (0-7884-1554-9)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 34 and 35by Carol WellsISBN 0788416685 (0-7884-1668-5)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 36, 37 & 38by Carol WellsISBN 0788418076 (0-7884-1807-6)
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Edgefield County, South Carolina Wills, 1787-1818by James E. Wooley, Vivian WooleyISBN 0893086630 (0-89308-663-0)
Hardcover, Southern Historical Pr
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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994by Dan T. CarterISBN 0807123668 (0-8071-2366-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920by Glenda Elizabeth GilmoreISBN 0807845965 (0-8078-4596-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing As a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseballby Kenneth S. GreenbergISBN 0691017190 (0-691-01719-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Israel On The Appomattox: A Southern Experiment In Black Freedom From The 1790s Through The Civil Warby Melvin Patrick ElyISBN 0679768726 (0-679-76872-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Masteryby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807112488 (0-8071-1248-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839by Frances Anne KembleISBN 1414232179 (1-4142-3217-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Sonby William Alexander Percy, Walker PercyISBN 0807100722 (0-8071-0072-2)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Manby J. William JonesISBN 0873779592 (0-87377-959-2)
Hardcover, Hess Pubns
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Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950sby Pete DanielISBN 0807848484 (0-8078-4848-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Daniel chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the postwar period. In chapters that explore such subjects as the civil rights movement, segregation, and school integration; the breakdown of traditional agriculture and the ensuing rural-urban migration; gay and lesbian life; and the emergence of rock 'n' roll music and stock car racing, as well as the triumph of working-class culture, he reveals that the 1950s South was a place with the potential for revolutionary change.
In the end, however, the chance for significant transformation was squandered, Daniel argues. One can only imagine how different southern history might have been if politicians, the press, the clergy, and local leaders had supported democratic reforms that bestowed full citizenship on African Americansand how little would have been accomplished if a handful of blacks and whites had not taken risks to bring about the changes that did come. [via]
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Making Whitenessby Grace E. HaleISBN 0679442634 (0-679-44263-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940by Grace Elizabeth HaleISBN 0679776206 (0-679-77620-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Countryby Stephanie McCurryISBN 0195117956 (0-19-511795-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southby William Kauffman ScarboroughISBN 0807131555 (0-8071-3155-5)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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AUTHOR BIO: A professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, William Kauffman Scarborough is the author of The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South and editor of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. He is a recipient of the B. L. C. Wailes Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence for the entire body of his work. A past president of the Mississippi Historical Society and the St. George Tucker Society, he lives in Hattiesburg. [via]
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The Mind of the Southby Wilbur Joseph CashISBN 0679736476 (0-679-73647-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil Warby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807855731 (0-8078-5573-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies," models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social upheaval of the Civil War, when they found themselves suddenly assuming unaccustomed roles as workers, protectors, and providers. Through the use of hundreds of moving and eloquent letters, memoirs, and diary excerpts, Drew Gilpin Faust, one of the foremost historians of the American South, illuminates the lives of a wide array of Confederate women: from Lizzie Neblett, a housewife facing a life of physical labor for the first time, to Sallie Tompkins, a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse, to Belle Boyd, a ruthless teenaged spy. An intensely personal work of scholarship, Mothers of Invention gives voice to the hitherto silent half of the Confederacy's ruling class and explains how its ethos continues to influence the lives of Southern women even today.
"A dramatically revealing study...[Faust looks] directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart."--New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War:
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migrationby Steven HahnISBN 067401765X (0-674-01765-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflictby Thomas D. Clark, John D. W. GuiceISBN 0806128364 (0-8061-2836-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Origins of the New South, 1877-1913by Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0807100196 (0-8071-0019-6)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Peculiar Institutionby Kenneth M. StamppISBN 0394440153 (0-394-44015-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum Southby Kenneth Milton StamppISBN 0679723072 (0-679-72307-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politicsby Dan T. CarterISBN 0807125970 (0-8071-2597-0)
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The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstructionby Edward L. AyersISBN 0195085485 (0-19-508548-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise of the New South : Life after Reconstruction'Book summary:At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnic and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century--a combination of progress and reaction that defined the contradictory promise of the New South.
Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic "Redeemers" swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Here is the local Baptist congregation, the country store, the tobacco-stained second-class railroad car, the rise of Populism: the teeming, nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. And central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement. Ayers weaves all these details into the contradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns it was to follow for the next fifty years.
When Edward Ayers published Vengeance and Justice, a landmark study of crime and punishment in the nineteenth-century South, he received wide acclaim. Now he provides an unforgettable account of the New South--a land with one foot in the future and the other in the past. [via]More editions of The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction:
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0060937165 (0-06-093716-5)
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Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0060158514 (0-06-015851-4)
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Americaby John M. BarryISBN 0684840022 (0-684-84002-2)
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While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself. [via]
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Madeby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394716523 (0-394-71652-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholdersby James OakesISBN 0394716396 (0-394-71639-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760S-1890sby Bertram Wyatt-BrownISBN 080784912X (0-8078-4912-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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This eloquent and richly textured study first demonstrates the psychological complexity of race relations, drawing new and provocative comparisons between American slave oppression and the Nazi concentration camp experience. The author then reveals how the rhetoric and rituals of honor affected the Revolutionary generation and--through a study of Andrew Jackson, dueling, and other demonstrations of manhood--how early American politicians won or lost popularity. In perhaps the most subtle and intriguing section of the book, he discloses the interconnections of honor and religious belief and practice. Finally, exploring the effects of war and defeat on former Confederates, Wyatt-Brown suggests that the rise of violent racism following the Civil War had significant links to the shame of military defeat and the spurious invocation of religious convictions. [via]
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinasby Sally E. HaddenISBN 0674012348 (0-674-01234-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas'Book summary:Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.
Mining a variety of sources, Sally Hadden presents the views of both patrollers and slaves as she depicts the patrols, composed of "respectable" members of society as well as poor whites, often mounted and armed with whips and guns, exerting a brutal and archaic brand of racial control inextricably linked to post-Civil War vigilantism and the Ku Klux Klan. City councils also used patrollers before the war, and police forces afterward, to impose their version of race relations across the South, making the entire region, not just plantations, an armed camp where slave workers were controlled through terror and brutality.
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Slaves in the Familyby Edward BallISBN 0783886284 (0-7838-8628-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Marketby Walter JohnsonISBN 0674005392 (0-674-00539-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The South in Modern Americaby D. GranthamISBN 0060922087 (0-06-092208-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The South in Modern America: A Region at Oddsby Dewey W. GranthamISBN 1557287104 (1-55728-710-4)
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Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Beltby Christine L. HeyrmanISBN 0679446389 (0-679-44638-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Beltby Christine Leigh HeyrmanISBN 080784716X (0-8078-4716-X)
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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old Southby Bertram Wyatt-BrownISBN 1597402362 (1-59740-236-2)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examples to illuminate the dynamics of Southern life throughout the antebellum period. He describes how Southern whites, living chiefly in small, rural, agrarian surroundings, in which everyone knew everyone else, established the local hierarchy of kinfolk and neighbors according to their individual and familial reputation. By claiming honor and dreading shame, they controlled their slaves, ruled their households, established the social rankings of themselves, kinfolk, and neighbors, and responded ferociously against perceived threats. The shamed and shameless sometimes suffered grievously for defying community norms. Wyatt-Brown further explains how a Southern elite refined the ethic. Learning, gentlemanly behavior, and deliberate rather than reckless resort to arms softened the cruder form, which the author calls "primal honor." In either case, honor required men to demonstrate their prowess and engage in fierce defense of individual, family, community, and regional reputation by duel, physical encounter, or war. Subordination of African-Americans was uppermost in this Southern ethic. Any threat, whether from the slaves themselves or from outside agitation, had to be met forcefully. Slavery was the root cause of the Civil War, but, according to Wyatt-Brown, honor pulled the trigger. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this anniversary edition of a classic work offers readers a compelling view of Southern culture before the Civil War. [via]More editions of Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South:
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The Strange Career of Jim Crowby Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0195146905 (0-19-514690-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Career of Jim Crow'Book summary:C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.
Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations." [via]More editions of The Strange Career of Jim Crow:
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The Strange Career of Jim Crowby C. Vann WoodwardISBN 0195018052 (0-19-501805-2)
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Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crowby Leon F. LitwackISBN 039452778X (0-394-52778-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crow'Book summary:The name of the era, "Jim Crow," was somehow derived from an old minstrel song, but there was nothing frivolous about the laws and traditions used to keep blacks from participating in society in the post-Reconstruction South. Leon Litwack, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a noted authority on black history, has written a searing account of the age of Jim Crow in Trouble In Mind. The book is arranged in thematic chapters that show how blacks were restricted at every turn. Blacks were kept in perpetual debt, denied proper schooling, and were subjected to daily assaults on their dignity. Most disturbing was the institution of lynchings, the thousands of hangings and burnings that terrorized blacks in the South. Litwack documents how lynchings were carefully planned and attracted large crowds who viewed them as cathartic entertainment. Trouble In Mind deals with a long and sad chapter in American History, but Professor Litwack has written a laudable book which deserves to be read. Trouble In Mind is considered a sequel to Litwack's Been In the Storm So Long, a critically acclaimed account of Reconstruction which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History. [via]
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A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontierby William C. DavisISBN 0807121320 (0-8071-2132-0)
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old Southby Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseISBN 080784232X (0-8078-4232-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justiceby David M. OshinskyISBN 0684830957 (0-684-83095-7)
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