Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Edgefield, South Carolina, as the Birthplace of Southern Righteous Honor
  • Toward a New Southern Ideology. Honor: From Colonial Virility to Antebellum Refinement ; Piety: The Ascent of Evangelical Protestantism ; Righteous Honor: Merging the Ethics of Honor and Piety in the Early Antebellum Period
  • Righteous Honor in Action. Moral Failings: Exorcising Inner Demons during the Sectional Crisis ; The Conundrum of Slavery: Sanctioning Violence on Moral Grounds ; 1856: Righteous Honor Triumphant ; The Civil War and Reconstruction: Violent Conflict as Divine Contest
  • Epilogue: The Damnable Legacies of Righteous Honor.