Title: Antebellum North and South in Comparative Perspective: A Discussion
Abstract:EDWARD PESSEN HAS PROVIDED ANOTHER of his very useful surveys of literature relevant to an important theme, this time a comparison of antebellum North and South, to suggest that the two sections were ...EDWARD PESSEN HAS PROVIDED ANOTHER of his very useful surveys of literature relevant to an important theme, this time a comparison of antebellum North and South, to suggest that the two sections were far more alike than the conventional scholarly wisdom has led us to believe (page 1147). Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney have offered a sectional comparison only by implication-a lazy South versus an industrious North. Both How Different from Each Other Were the Antebellum North and South? and The South from Self-Sufficiency to Peonage: An Interpretation, although quite different in approach, attack fundamental and long-held assumptions about the character of Southern life and the nature of Southern society in the years before the Civil War.Read More
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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