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Albert Taylor Bledsoe : defender of the old south and architect of the lost cause /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnhart, Terry A., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
Series:Southern biography series.
Subjects:
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, > 1809-1877.
Secession > Southern States.
Slavery > Southern States > Justification.
Intellectuals > Southern States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Education and vocation : the origins of a southern intellectual
  • Public order and private liberty : the political creed of an Illinois Whig
  • Southern education and politics : the making of a sectionalist
  • A philosophy of the will : metaphysical and theological speculations
  • Southern slavery justified : a watchman's response to abolitionism
  • A southern discourse : replies to liberty and slavery
  • Broken faiths and covenants : sectionalism, secession, and war
  • Writing the revolution : a Confederate interpretation of the Civil War
  • The judgment of history : the right of secession and the lost cause
  • Rising up from the ashes : the mission of the Southern Review.