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Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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Aug 17, 2017
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Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a survey of that manner in which commentators--American, foreign, northern, and southern--have sought to make sense of the nature of southern society and southern history. The lecture analyzes the society and culture of the Old South, with special emphasis on the aspects of southern life that made the region distinct from the antebellum North. The most lasting and influential sources of Old South distinctiveness, Blight suggests, were that society's anti-modernism, its emphasis on honor, and the booming slave economy that developed in the South from the 1820s to the 1860s.TranscriptLecture Page
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Aug 17, 2017
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Titles in the series (27)
Lecture 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862: Professor Blight discusses the expectations, advantages, and disadvantages with which North and South entered the Civil War. Both sides, he argues, expected and desired a short, contained conflict. The northern advantages enumerated in this lecture include industrial capability, governmental stability, and a strong navy. Confederate advantages included geography and the ability to fight a defensive war. Professor Blight concludes the lecture with the Battle of Bull Run, the first major engagement of the war. Transcript Lecture Page by HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877