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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"antebellum South"”.
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John C. Calhoun and Nationalism in the Antebellum South
This thesis examines John C. Calhoun's shift from a more nationalist to a more states' rights position. The study explores the evolution of his thought from the War of 1812 until the early 1830s. Using the debate surrounding the policy issues of the National Bank, internal improvements and …
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Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South
… potteries of the Old Edgefield District of South Carolina have previously been categorized as a Southern 'folk tradition', recent research regarding the extent of production and labor organization, along with the social and cultural milieu, reveal an early example of rural antebellum …
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The Lake Chapel at Somerset Plantation and Religious Instruction in the Antebellum South
… Somerset Place was one of the state's largest antebellum plantations, with its Episcopal Lake Chapel membership consisting of nearly half the state's black communicants. Although not a full history, this research focuses both sharply and broadly on the Chapel at Somerset. It describes the …
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An Archaeological Examination of a Family Cemetery in the South Carolina Low Country
… century rice plantation near Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. This site has yielded an amazing assortment of artifacts as well as multiple structures associated with plantation life in the Antebellum South. It was during the course of this work that a long forgotten family cemetery was …
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Secret Spaces: An Underground America
… sustain informal freedom within the slaveholding South. The paper examines five case studies to explore methods and networks enslaved people used to hide from white slave owners. Maroon scholarship emphasizes the role escape played within rural and urban spaces in the South and the opportunities …
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Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes At the Hampton-Preston Mansion In Columbia, South Carolina
<p>The Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina is a historic house museum where scores of visitors tour every year. The museum illustrates the property's history dating back to the early Antebellum South. However, what is portrayed to visitors is in part a fabrication due to a …
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A Requiem to Departed Days: The Transformation and Retrenchment of Planter-Class Women in Georgia
<p>During the American Civil War, elite Southern women were required to step outside their traditional role as the protected gender in order to take on responsibilities like supporting Confederate troops, maintaining and operating plantations, supervising slaves, and providing for their families. …
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Science goes South: John Millington, Frederick Barnard, and the University of Mississippi, 1848-1861
… for the lack of scientific activity in the antebellum South are not sufficiently inclusive. Past accounts generally consider religion, climate, lack of urbanization, and deficiency of intellectual activity as the major causative factors. I assert that scientific activity was proceeding along …
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A Briny Crossroads Salt, Slavery, and Sectionalism in The Kanawha Salines
… assumptions about slavery and freedom in the antebellum South. The paradoxical nature of slavery in this locale can be seen in the identity of the first documented people forced to labor in the salt works. A half century before enslaved Africans were imported to this region, European women and …
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Religion, Slavery and Secession: Reflections on the Life and Letters of Robert Hall Morrison
… Carolina's secession, he opted to stay in the South. Morrison expressed sentiments in letters written to family and close friends that together reveal no less than a paradoxical man. This thesis attempts to explore the contradictions expressed by Morrison in a series of letters, written …
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Did Money Matter? Interpreting the Effect of Displayed Wealth on Social Relations within an Enslaved Community
… quarters across the Virginia Piedmont (and the Antebellum South), archaeologists have not been able to come to a clear consensus on how to approach the study of social networks; with some researchers focusing on social standing, seen most often through the role of material wealth to create …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… are partly wrong (as well as partly right). Southern slavery was indeed profitable but nevertheless inefficient; it operated like other obvious practices—from piracy through monopoly to government subsidies—where individual gains do not vii translate into social benefits. In the terminology …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… UDC members considered characteristic of the antebellum South, such as self-sacrifice and obedience. Over time, the organization also came to function as a transition vehicle in enlarging and empowering white Texas women's lives. As time passed and more veterans died, the organization turned …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… borderlands. In the highly partisan world of the antebellum south, state politics and a democratic ethos collided with the violent actions of local, state, and federal actors in the borderlands crucible. Whiteness became less of a negotiated identity as state legislators sought to safeguard and …
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The Influence of Literacy on the Lives of Twentieth Century Southern Female Minority Figures
<p>The American South has long been a region associated with myth and fantasy; in popular culture especially, the region is consistently tied to skewed notions of the antebellum South that include images of large plantation homes, women in hoop skirts, and magnolia trees that manifest in television …
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Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865-1866
… work being Theodore Wilson's Black Codes of the South. Other studies have examined the Black Codes' effect on specific states; however, no specific study has been done on the Black Codes of Kentucky and Tennessee nor has any study been made of these laws' relation to the antebellum Slave Code. …
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What is, is what ought to be: Providence and Benjamin Morgan Palmer’s public theology
… pastors in the Nineteenth Century American South. Though his life has been examined, and he is mentioned in passing in many studies of the antebellum South, his writings on public theology have not heretofore been carefully examined. This study undertakes to examine Palmer’s public theology. …
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the close relationship between governmental authority and the discipline of black people, a relationship that has gone …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… of shifting fields of race and class. While the Southern literary ""renaissance"" is frequently credited with debunking post-Civil War ""plantation literature's"" romanticizations of the antebellum South, it produced its own mystified versions of more recent Southern history. I argue for a link …
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